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RMST 202 Literatures and Cultures of the Romance World II: Modern to Post-Modern
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I lie deep in the ground, far away from a man’s world

This book for me was the best one yet. I swear being able to fully understand what I am reading makes it all the more enjoyable. In the lecture the professor talked about the power of fiction. I found it interesting that although this is obviously a work of fiction, it never felt as though […]

Posted in Blogs, Bombal | Tagged with class, family, fiction, gender, love, modernism, Realism

Bombal and Peripheral Modernism

Bombal and Peripheral Modernism

María Luisa Bombal, The Shrouded Woman

Posted in Bombal lecture, Lecture Videos | Tagged with agency, C20th, Chile, death, gender, life, modernism, narrator, patriarchy

Aragon on Everyday Time

Aragon on Everyday Time

Louis Aragon, Paris Peasant

Posted in Aragon lecture, Lecture Videos | Tagged with avant-garde, C20th, France, history, modernism, modernity, Paris, ruins, Surrealism, temporality, time

Modernist Visual Culture

Modernist Visual Culture

Modernist and Avant-Garde images

Posted in Aragon resources, Proust resources | Tagged with Art, avant-garde, modernism, painting, perspective, sculpture, Surrealism

Proust discussion

Proust discussion

Discussions from January 17, 2024

Posted in Proust resources | Tagged with event, modernism, plot

“Combray” – Through the Eyes of a Child

What struck me most while reading “Combray” – other than the fact that I had to reread several sentences before they computed in my brain – was the perspective of the narrator, and the way the memories were framed through the lens of a child. The way Proust writes definitely puts the reader in the […]

Posted in Blogs, Proust | Tagged with in-search-of-lost-time, modernism

Arlt on Picaresque Betrayal and Rebirth

Arlt on Picaresque Betrayal and Rebirth

Roberto Arlt, Mad Toy

Posted in Arlt lecture, Lecture Videos | Tagged with Argentina, betrayal, criminality, immigration, language, modernism

On Marcel Proust

On Marcel Proust

A conversation with Farid Laroussi

Posted in Conversation Videos, Proust videos | Tagged with C20th, France, habit, memory, modernism, repetition, temporality, time

Proust and the Modernist Novel

Proust and the Modernist Novel

Marcel Proust, “Combray”

Posted in Lecture Videos, Proust lecture | Tagged with C20th, childhood, difficulty, framing, France, modernism, perspective, representation, temporality, time

Proust Questions

Proust Questions

Questions on “Combray”

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