The Backward Look

Memory and Writing Self in France 1580-1920
1. Auflage 2000
ISBN: 978-1-900755-31-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 206 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 215 mm, Gewicht: 318 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Goodden, Angelica

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Fremdsprachenerwerb und -didaktik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Angelica Goodden