The Backward Look : Memory and Writing Self in France 1580-1920
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1900755319
ISBN-13
9781900755313
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint
Legenda
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 1st, 2000
Print length
206 Pages
Weight
317 grams
Product Classification:
Literary theoryLiterary studies: general
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Godden 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.
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. The philosophical, scientific and fictional writings of Diderot and the novels and autobiographical works of Rousseau are central to this ground-breaking work, which should be of interest to all readers concerned with the specificity of the French literary tradition.
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