{"product_id":"roland-barthes-thomas-baldwin-9781789620016","title":"Roland Barthes: The Proust Variations","description":"This book confronts the singularity of the relationship between two exemplary writers of the last century in order to challenge and to reinvigorate our notions of what art and criticism - literary or otherwise - can do. While it takes Roland Barthes's encounters with Marcel Proust's monumental masterpiece À la recherche du temps perdu as its specific focus, the implications of its argument are far-reaching. Indeed, the book argues that Barthes's writing on Proust's work between the early 1950s and 1980 (including a substantial set of unpublished notes for a seminar delivered at the University of Rabat in 1969-1970) proposes not only a critical culture of Proust that is productively inconsistent, but also, more generally, a fresh understanding of criticism as a creative activity that embraces insecurity and variation as it refuses to remain fixed upon reassuringly stable themes, meanings and interpretations.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Thomas Baldwin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1789620015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781789620016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Liverpool University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/31\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.20w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThomas Baldwin is a Reader in French at the University of Kent.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Thomas Baldwin","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44125403644159,"sku":"9781789620016","price":143.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_11696ba3-f6c9-4aed-94c9-84601decc94b.jpg?v=1687442430","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/roland-barthes-thomas-baldwin-9781789620016","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}