Keywords
In Search of Lost Time, Deleuze and Guattari, Spinoza, Bergson, Line of Flight, Involuntary Memory
Abstract
The theoretical oeuvre of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari often looks to In Search of Lost Time as a work that exemplifies or inspires their concepts. These chapters draw on their work regarding Marcel Proust as a conceptual basis for understanding The Search. Even so, their work on Proust is neither an exhaustive study of his novel nor a totalizing application of their philosophy. As a result, this study focuses on the successive loves of The Search as an element of the novel whose analysis is facilitated by the work of Deleuze and Guattari while not being a topic that they dedicate great focus to. By framing these successive loves in terms of their relationship to writing, to time, and to the positioning of the novel's narrator, we can trace novel connections not just in Proust's work, but also in the conceptual frame that Deleuze and Guattari have constructed in order to facilitate these inquiries.
Completion Date
2024
Semester
Spring
Committee Chair
Gleyzon, Francois-Xavier
Degree
Master of Arts (M.A.)
College
College of Arts and Humanities
Department
English
Degree Program
Literary, Cultural, and Textual Studies
Format
application/pdf
Identifier
DP0028317
URL
https://purls.library.ucf.edu/go/DP0028317
Language
English
Rights
In copyright
Release Date
May 2024
Length of Campus-only Access
None
Access Status
Masters Thesis (Open Access)
Campus Location
Orlando (Main) Campus
STARS Citation
Hoven, Dylan, "A Succession of Loves, of Writing, and of Memory: Reverberations of Deleuze and Guattari Across In Search of Lost Time" (2024). Graduate Thesis and Dissertation 2023-2024. 148.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/etd2023/148
Accessibility Status
Meets minimum standards for ETDs/HUTs