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Present Past : Modernity and the Memory Crisis /

This book is about memory-about how the past persists into the present, and about how this persistence has been understood over the past two centuries. Since the French Revolution, memory has been the source of an intense disquiet. Fundamental cultural theories have sought to understand it, and have...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Terdiman, Richard
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1993.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. 1. An Introduction to Memory
  • 1. Historicizing Memory
  • 2. Theorizing Recollection
  • pt. 2. The Ambiguities of Reminiscence: Two Nineteenth-Century Representations
  • 3. The Mnemonics of Musset's Confession
  • 4. Baudelaire's "Le Cygne": Memory, History, and the Sign
  • pt. 3. The Vicissitudes of Recollection: Two Twentieth-Century Theories
  • 5. Hypermnesia
  • Memory in Proust: I. Determinations
  • 6. Hypermnesia
  • Memory in Proust: II. Displacements
  • 7. Mnemo-Analysis
  • Memory in Freud: I. Maieutics
  • 8. Mnemo-Analysis
  • Memory in Freud: II. Hermeneutics
  • Conclusion: Reading Memory.