1st Edition

Picture as Spectre in Diderot, Proust, and Deleuze

By Thomas Baldwin Copyright 2011
144 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge

This book explores the work of spectres in Denis Diderot's Salons, Marcel Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu, and Gilles Deleuze's Francis Bacon, logique de la sensation. It examines the extent to which Diderot, Proust and Deleuze are able to resist the 'Marcellus complex'.

Introduction 1. The Spectre in Theory 2. Writing the Spectre: Diderot 3. Making the Spectre: Proust 4. Spectres of Proust: Deleuze 5. Conclusion

Biography

Thomas Baldwin