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

Name: The Backward Look
Brand: Taylor & Francis Ltd
SKU: 9781900755313
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ISBN: 9781900755313

by Angelica Goodden

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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 theory Literary 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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