Present Past : Modernity and the Memory Crisis / Richard Terdiman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Terdiman, Richard, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Memory in literature.

Modernism (Literature)--France.

Modernism (Literature).

Literature, Modern--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Literature, Modern.

French literature--20th century--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

French literature.

French literature--19th century--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939.

Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922. A la recherche du temps perdu.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 389 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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 striven to represent its stresses.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Abbreviations

Part One AN INTRODUCTION TO MEMORY

1. Historicizing Memory

2. Theorizing Recollection

Part Two 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

Part Three 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

Works Cited

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 361-378) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Sep 2019)

ISBN:

1-5017-1760-X

OCLC:

1080551463