The promise of memory : childhood recollection and its objects in literary modernism /
Readers once believed in Proust's madeleine and in Wordsworth's recollections of his boyhood--but that was before literary culture began to defer to Freud's questioning of adult memories of childhood. In this first sustained look at childhood memories as depicted in literature, Lorna...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Press,
[2011]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: writing childhood memory
- Childhood memory in modernism
- 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.