Background
Wimmers, Inge Crosman was born on January 17, 1940 in Hamm, Westphalia, Germany. Arrived in the United States, 1954. Daughter of Ewald Otto and Hildegard Margarete Karalus.
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What happens when we read novels and how do we make sense of them? Inge Wimmers explores these questions by developing a flexible poetics of reading that generously opens up the interpretive space between reader and text, while drawing on current theories of reading and combining rhetorical, pragmatic, and phenomenological approaches. "Poetics," here, is extended beyond the study of purely textual features to structures of exchange between text and reader. In a discussion of four major French novels from the seventeenth century to the present, the author not only sets up a broad-based poetics but also makes important contributions to contemporary issues in the study of narrative. Wimmers introduces the concept of multiple, interlocking frames of reference that allows for the integration of diverse critical perspectives. Analyzing La Princesse de Cleves, Madame Bovary, A la recherche du temps perdu, and Projet pour une revolution a New York, she shows how texts provide some frames of reference, while others are produced by the reader's disposition and cultural milieu. Originally published in 1989. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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In Proust and Emotion, Inge Crosman Wimmers proposes a new approach to A la recherche du temps perdu that centres on the role of affect. Through close reading of the hero-narrator's personal history, the author shows how emotional paradigms (especially separation anxiety), involuntary memory, and other compelling impressions give focus and structure to Proust's novel. Drawing on reader-oriented and emotion theories, she shows how affect commands the attention of the 'motivated reader' and is crucial to the process of self-understanding for both the narrator and the reader. This is the first extensive study in English to take fully into consideration the drafts (esquisses) published in the new Pléiade edition of the novel, the Mauriac edition of Albertine disparue, and material from the unpublished Proust manuscripts - all of which shed further light on the importance of affect in A la recherche. Proust and Emotion will appeal to readers interested in an approach to Proust that combines insights from philosophy, psychology, and literary aesthetics and in a poetics of reading that pays particular attention to emotion.
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French literature and theory educator
Wimmers, Inge Crosman was born on January 17, 1940 in Hamm, Westphalia, Germany. Arrived in the United States, 1954. Daughter of Ewald Otto and Hildegard Margarete Karalus.
AB, Douglass College, Baltimore, 1962. Master of Arts, Columbia University, New York City, 1965. Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia University, New York City, 1971.
Instructor French and German Bradford College, Massachusetts, 1963—1964. Lecturer French Brooklyn College, 1964—1965. Assistant professor French Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 1969—1972.
Professor French studies Brown University, Providence, 1973—2005, professor French studies (research), since 2006, chair department French Studies, 1994—1997.
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Member Association Literature Scholars and Critics, Modern Language Association (executive committee division on prose fiction 1983-1987), Amis de Marcel Proust, Proust Gesellschaft, Chevalier de l'ordre des palmes académiques, Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Robert True Crosman, September 1967 (divorced 1984). 1 child, Christopher. Married Eric Walter Wimmers, June 22, 1984.