Prestige of a Momentary Diamond
Economies of Distinction in Proust
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4271012 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hannah Freed-Thall (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 159-178 |
| Publication date | 2012-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New Literary History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0028-6087 • E-ISSN: 1080-661X |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/nlh.2012.0008 |
| OpenAlex | W2029054949 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 14 |
The essay examines Proust's involvement in the "Lemoine Affair," a diamond-fabrication scam that captured the French popular imagination in 1908. Lemoine's hoax inspired Proust to undertake his own virtuosic exercise in fraud: in the year before he began drafting In Search of Lost Time, he published a series of pastiches in the newspaper- fictional accounts of the affair written in the styles of Balzac, Flaubert, Michelet, and others. These pastiches highlight Proust's penchant for newspapers, magic tricks, and ventriloquistic play. Experiments in the phenomenology of "convulsive" and "unstable" preciosity, they reveal Proust's fascination with the volatility of value and the peculiar status of the aesthetic object in modernity
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Epistemology · Hoax · Literature · MAGIC (telescope) · Media studies · Modernity · Newspaper · Phenomenology (philosophy) · Physics · Prestige · Sociology · French Literature and Critical Theory · French Literature and Criticism · Literature and Culture Studies · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2022 (7) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |