Outward evil, inward battle : human memory in literature / edited by Benjamin Hart Fishkin ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Memory in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (244 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Mankon, Bamenda, Cameroon : Langaa Research & Pub. CIG, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book is a timely humanistic touch to memory studies. It uses literature as a laboratory for the workings of the mind, and characters as the subjects of human experimentation and diagnostics. This book considers authors from different societies and historical periods. The book is a refreshing illumination on the functioning of human memory. It complements the work of neuroscientists who seek to rationalize the workings of the same. Drawing from various ideas on memory, this rich and authoritative volume results from wide-ranging endeavors centered on the common fact that tracking memory in.

Contents:

section 1. Power

section 2. Music

section 3. Resistance

section 4. Trauma

section 5. Cultural identity.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789956790333

9956790338

9789956790456

9956790451

OCLC:

854520715