Marcel Proust

a shifting scene that can change based on the character’s, and the reader’s, perspectives and emotions. Where the Realists wished to provide a view of reality as it happened, the Impressionists wanted to show how reality changes as people do. Marcel Proust says it best in his book Time Regained “Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer 's work is only a kind of optical instrument he provides the reader so he can discern what he might never have seen in himself…

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes” Marcel Proust. Through this quote discovery could defined as manifold notion, which comprises exploring something for the first time or rediscovering something that has been faded, forgotten or concealed. People may experience different types of discovery which could be sudden and unexpected. However it may affect them physically, emotionally, intellectually and spiritually. This response will focus…

Bergson: Time, Memory and Modernism Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay Henri Bergson (1859 – 1941) was a French philosopher whose philosophy had a marked influence on later 19th century poetry and also on 20th century modernist thought. In my presentation, I will outline in brief Bergson’s key philosophical thoughts and how they influenced modernist literature. Bergson maintained that in animals, evolution caused a division between the instinct and the intellect. Although the two are not exclusive of…

Formal Writing – Samantha Deakin “Why you should read more.” “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only on” – George R.R Martin. In the fast paced world we live in today full of new technology, social media, etc. It can be very hard for young people to slow down and become more in touch with themselves. Reading is a task essential to any person who wishes to become more educated, open-minded and wants to expand their views on the world. So it is…

In everyday life we interpret the world around us using our five senses: touch, smell, taste, sight, and hearing. What if you were born without one of those senses, or maybe multiple of them? How do people adapt to the world if they are born blind, and is it the same way people that have an accident or disease that caused their blindness later on in life adapt? We know that people have overcome their disabilities to do great things for instance Hellen Keller who was born a deaf/blind/mute went…

“The real voyage of discovery consists in not seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” Marcel Proust. Consider the quotation above and consider how perceptions of discovery vary according to personal, cultural and social contexts and values. Discovery is a part of human condition; its inevitability is inescapable and is at the core of any personal growth. However, just as most things are a product of their context, any realisation is highly dependent on the personal, social and cultural…

suddenly replaced by an anxious, torturing need, whose object is the person alone, an absurd, irrational need which the laws of this world make it impossible to satisfy and difficult to assuage – the insensate agonizing need to possess exclusively” (Proust, Marcel. Remembrance of Thing 's Past. 252.…

the way of interpreting time in literature changed. Virginia Woolf’s novels examine the structures of human life as well as issues relevant to her time and background. She is influenced by Bloomsbury values and novelists such as James Joyce and Marcel Proust and philosopher Henri Bergson.…

American Graffiti is set in 1962 in small town U.S.A and is filmed almost exclusively at night. It is aurally accompanied by a late 1950s and early 1960s rock ‘n’ roll sound montage and also the bizarre verbal ramblings of radio Disc Jockey Wolfman Jack. The text follows the fragmented quests[3] of four male youths at the tail end of this 1950s style youth culture before the advent of America’s full involvement in the Vietnam War, the rise of new left radicalism and spread of the Hippie movement…

allusions in the text and in the images, its the references in the chapter titles that appear the most significant. For example, the fourth chapter title “In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower” is a translation of the title of one of the volumes in Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time. This literary work is a novel that recounts the experiences of a narrator while he is growing up, learning about art, and falling in love. Similarly, Bechdel talks about these themes in her fourth chapter. She…