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The promise of memory : childhood recollection and its objects in literary modernism / Lorna Martens.
LIBRA PN56.M44 M37 2011
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Martens, Lorna, 1946-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Memory in literature.
- Modernism (Literature).
- Psychoanalysis and literature.
- Literature, Modern--History and criticism.
- Literature, Modern.
- Physical Description:
- x, 272 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, [2011]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674061460
- 0674061462
- OCLC:
- 693208219
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