The promise of memory childhood recollection and its objects in literary modernism

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Martens, Lorna, 1946- (-)
Format: Book
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. ; London : Harvard University Press 2011
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: writing childhood memory
  • Introduction to the present study
  • Overview: objectives and methods
  • Childhood autobiography
  • Remembering: Wordsworth versus the modernists
  • Memory theory: Freud and the aftermath
  • The effect of psychoanalytical and psychological memory theory on literature
  • The importance of things and places in childhood memories
  • Memory as text: the importance of form
  • Constructing buried treasure: Proust's childhood memories
  • Making things out of fear: Rilke and childhood memory
  • Collecting the past, prefiguring the future: Benjamin remembering his childhood
  • Conclusion.