{"product_id":"what-proust-heard-by-professor-michael-lucey-9780226816678","title":"What Proust Heard","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMichael Lucey offers a linguistic anthropological analysis of Proust’s \u003cem\u003eIn Search of Lost Time\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhat happens when we talk? This deceptively simple question is central to Marcel Proust’s monumental novel \u003cem\u003eIn Search of Lost Time\u003c\/em\u003e. Both Proust’s narrator and the novel that houses him devote considerable energy to investigating not just what people are \u003cem\u003esaying\u003c\/em\u003e or \u003cem\u003edoing\u003c\/em\u003e when they talk, but also what happens socioculturally through their use of language. Proust, in other words, is interested in what linguistic anthropologists call language-in-use.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMichael Lucey elucidates Proust’s approach to language-in-use in a number of ways: principally in relation to linguistic anthropology, but also in relation to speech act theory, and to Pierre Bourdieu’s sociology. The book also includes an interlude after each of its chapters that contextualises Proust’s social-scientific practice of novel writing in relation to that of a number of other novelists, earlier and later, and from several different traditions, including Honoré de Balzac, George Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Nathalie Sarraute, and Rachel Cusk. Lucey is thus able to show how, in the hands of quite different novelists, various aspects of the novel form become instruments of linguistic anthropological analysis.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe result introduces a different way of understanding language to literary and cultural critics and explores the consequences of this new understanding for the practice of literary criticism more generally.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47471935815916,"sku":"9780226816678","price":72.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780226816678-what-proust-heard.jpg?v=1775263145","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/what-proust-heard-by-professor-michael-lucey-9780226816678","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}