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
Author
Lorna MartensPublisher
Harvard University PressEdition 1
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Title and Author
The promise of memory: childhood recollection and its objects in literary modernism / Lorna MartensPublication Details
کمبریج : Harvard University Press، 2011مPhysical Description
x, 272 p.: ill.; 25 cm.Subject
Memory in literatureModernism (Literature)
Psychoanalysis and literature
Literature, Modern History and criticism
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انگلیسیNotes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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