THE BACKWARD LOOK by Angelica Goodden ( 9781900755313 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

THE BACKWARD LOOK
MEMORY AND WRITING SELF IN FRANCE 1580-1920

By:

Angelica Goodden

Format:

Paperback

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ISBN 10:

1900755319

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9781900755313

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Publisher:

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

Pub. date:

1 April, 2000

Series:

Legenda

Pages:

206

Description:

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.

Synopsis:

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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