Title Present past : modernity and the memory crisis / Richard Terdiman

Published Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1993

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 389 pages) Contents pt. 1. An Introduction to Memory -- 1. Historicizing Memory -- 2. Theorizing Recollection -- pt. 2. The Ambiguities of Reminiscence: Two Nineteenth-Century Representations -- 3. The Mnemonics of Musset's Confession -- 4. Baudelaire's "Le Cygne": Memory, History, and the Sign -- pt. 3. The Vicissitudes of Recollection: Two Twentieth-Century Theories -- 5. Hypermnesia -- Memory in Proust: I. Determinations -- 6. Hypermnesia -- Memory in Proust: II. Displacements -- 7. Mnemo-Analysis -- Memory in Freud: I. Maieutics -- 8. Mnemo-Analysis -- Memory in Freud: II. Hermeneutics -- Conclusion: Reading Memory Summary This book is about memory-about how the past persists into the present, and about how this persistence has been understood over the past two centuries. Since the French Revolution, memory has been the source of an intense disquiet. Fundamental cultural theories have sought to understand it, and have striven to represent its stresses Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-378) and index Notes Print version record Subject Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922. À la recherche du temps perdu. Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939 SUBJECT Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939 Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922. A la recherche du temps perdu Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939 fast Baudelaire, Charles 1821-1867 gnd Freud, Sigmund 1856-1939 gnd Musset, Alfred de 1810-1857 gnd Proust, Marcel 1871-1922 gnd Musset, Alfred de. swd Baudelaire, Charles. swd Proust, Marcel. swd Freud, Sigmund. swd À la recherche du temps perdu (Proust, Marcel) fast Subject French literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc French literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc Literature, Modern -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc Modernism (Literature) -- France Memory in literature. Literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc. Modernism (Literature) LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- French. LITERARY CRITICISM -- Semiotics & Theory. Literature -- Theory, etc. Memory in literature Modernism (Literature) Erinnerung Französisch Literatur Literaturtheorie Geheugen. Moderniteit. France Französisch. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781501717604 150171760X

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