The Backward Look: Memory and Writing Self in France 1580-1920

ISBN-13: 9781900755313 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 206 str.

Angelica Goodden

Opis

Theories of memory and fictional recreations of the remembering mind have occupied a central place in French literature since Montaigne. The author investigates the shifting relation between cognitive or scientific memory and emotional or spiritual recollection in a series of major writers from the 16th to the 20th centuries. Her study focuses on the 18th century, where the interplay between memory and imagination and the link between self-knowledge and self-presentation are shown to be exceptionally fertile.

Spis treści

Introduction 1 Breaking the Mould 2 Eighteenth-Century Histoires 3 Recording and Rewriting 4 Diderot: The Limits of Experience 5 Rousseau: Person and Memory 6 The Soul and the Self , Conclusion

O autorze

Angelica Goodden