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Reading through photography: Roland Barthes’s last seminar “Proust et la photographie” [PDF]
Focused on Roland Barthes’s notes for the last seminar of his Collège de France lecture series, entitled “Proust et la photographie,” this article considers the later Barthes’s conceptions of reading and writing, arguing that they are closely intertwined
Yacavone, Kathrin
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Frame Analysis: Erving Goffman and the Sociocognitive Organization of Experience
This paper revisits Erving Goffman's Frame Analysis fifty years after its publication. The paper first situates this book within the context of its intellectual precursors, namely Georg Simmel's 1917 essay “Sociability,” Alfred Schutz's 1945 article “On Multiple Realities,” and Gregory Bateson's 1955 paper “A Theory of Play and Fantasy.” It then ...
Eviatar Zerubavel
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Abstract My aim in this paper is to show that the natural idea that humiliation is harmful calls explanation and to argue that the most straightforward ways of responding to this explanatory demand fall short in important ways. I end by considering a line of response which I take to be promising, which appeals to our need, as social animals, for ...
James Laing
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On standards and values: Between finite actuality and infinite possibility [PDF]
This article explores the relation between subjects and standards in a way that is informed by a process orientation to theoretical psychology. Standards are presented as objectifications of values designed to generalize and stabilize experiences of ...
Stenner, Paul
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Excerpted from my book Generally Speaking, this paper introduces “concept‐driven sociology,” a special way of theorizing designed to reveal abstract social patterns. As such, it examines the methodological process by which we can “distill” generic patterns from the culturally, historically, and situationally specific contexts in which we encounter them.
Eviatar Zerubavel
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Many writers, including Virgina Woolf and Marcel Proust, structure memory out of the space and furnishings of the home.
Fox, Alyson Nichole
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Proust et Hergé : de quelques points communs entre À la recherche du temps perdu et Les Aventures de Tintin [PDF]
Proust and Hergé: on some similarities between À la Recherche du temps perdu and Les Aventures de Tintin. Part I. Marcel Proust and Hergé seem to have nothing in common.
Bidaud, Samuel
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« Noter sans suite ni transition » : déconstruction et reconstruction du récit d'enfance chez France, Loti et Proust [PDF]
National audienceReprésentants accomplis mais fatigués de la vogue du récit d'enfance, Loti et France constituent deux points d'aboutissement d'un genre qui semble arriver avec eux en fin de course : l'un du côté de la lacune, de la mélancolie, de la ...
Dupuy, Valérie
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Patrick Modiano : 'A Marcel Proust of our time’? [PDF]
The winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize for Literature was, in more ways than one, Patrick Modiano. Typically, the publicity-shy novelist had crept in under the radar, despite a late surge in the betting, and had even proved hard to locate once the decision ...
Morris, Alan
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The physical maze and the spiritual labyrinth of Gide's Les Caves Du Vatican [PDF]
This article discusses the maze motif in Andre Gide's 1914 novel, Les Caves du Vatican. The author argues that the spiritual labyrinth of French cathedrals, particularly that of Chartres, offers both the key to the novel's composition and a better ...
Jennings, William
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