The promise of memory: childhood recollection and its objects in literary modernism
Lorna Martens
The promise of memory: childhood recollection and its objects in literary modernism
المؤلف
Lorna Martensالناشر
Harvard University Pressطبع 1
قائمة
شناسنامه
العنوان واسم المؤلف
The promise of memory: childhood recollection and its objects in literary modernism / Lorna Martensبيانات النشر
کمبریج : Harvard University Press، 2011مالمواصفات الشكلية
x, 272 p.: ill.; 25 cm.الموضوع
Memory in literatureModernism (Literature)
Psychoanalysis and literature
Literature, Modern History and criticism
اللغة
انگلیسیملاحظات
Includes bibliographical references and index.
المحتويات
Introduction: writing childhood memory -- Introduction to the present study -- Overview: objectives and methods -- Childhood autobiography -- Remembering: Wordsworth versus the modernists -- Memory theory: Freud and the aftermath -- The effect of psychoanalytical and psychological memory theory on literature -- The importance of things and places in childhood memories -- Memory as text: the importance of form -- Constructing buried treasure: Proust's childhood memories -- Making things out of fear: Rilke and childhood memory -- Collecting the past, prefiguring the future: Benjamin remembering his childhood -- Conclusion