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Why life speeds up as you get older : how memory shapes our past / Douwe Draaisma ; translated by Arnold and Erica Pomerans.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Draaisma, D., author.
- Series:
- Canto classics.
- Canto classics
- Standardized Title:
- Historische Uitgeverij as Waarom het Leven sneller gaat als je ouder wordt : Over het autobiografische geheugen. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Autobiographical memory.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 277 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- Canto classics edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Entertaining and educational, Douwe Draaisma's Why Life Speeds Up As You Get Older raises almost as many questions as it answers. Draaisma applies a blend of scholarship, poetic sensibility and keen observation in exploring the nature of autobiographical memory, covering subjects such as déjà-vu, near death experiences and the effect of severe trauma on memory recall, as well as human perceptions of time at different stages in life. A highly accessible and personal read, this book will not fail to touch or provoke thought in its readers.
- Contents:
- 'Memory is like a dog that lies down where it pleases'
- Flashes in the dark: first memories
- Smell and memory
- Yesterday's record
- The inner flashbulb
- 'Why do we remember forwards and not backwards?'
- The absolute memories of Funes and Sherashevsky
- The advantages of a defect: the savant syndrome
- The memory of a grandmaster: a conversation with Ton Sijbrands
- Trauma and memory: the Demjanjuk case
- Richard and Anna Wagner: forty-five years of married life
- 'In oval mirrors we drive around' : on experiencing a sense of dejavu
- Reminiscences
- Why life speeds up as you get older
- Forgetting
- 'I saw my life flash before me'
- From memory- Portrait with Still Life.
- Notes:
- Originally published by Historische Uitgeverij as Waarom het Leven sneller gaat als je ouder wordt. Over het autobiografische geheugen C Douwe Draaisma 2001.
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-107-38705-1
- 1-139-89406-4
- 1-107-39558-5
- 1-107-38786-8
- 1-107-41476-8
- 1-107-39078-8
- 1-139-19709-6
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