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

Goodden, Angelica

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ISBN 10: 1900755319 ISBN 13: 9781900755313

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2000

Riassunto

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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GOODDEN, A. THE BACKWARD LOOK. MEMORY AND THE WRITING SELF IN FRANCE 1580-1920. OXFORD, 2000, xi 194 p.,. Encuadernacion original. Nuevo.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1900755319
• ISBN 13: 9781900755313
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 206