Present Past: Modernity and the Memory Crisis - Softcover

Terdiman, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0801481325 ISBN 13: 9780801481321

Publisher: Cornell University Press, 1993

Synopsis

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.

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Review:

"This breathtaking explication of the importance of memory in modernity sets the stage for brilliant readings that analyze a series of canonical works as symptoms of and reflections on the memory crisis.... Present Past is most importantly a contribution to our historical understanding of modernism and modernity."

Author: Eugene W. Holland Source: Nineteenth-Century French Studies

Synopsis:

Suggests that memory is essential to human functioning and a source of many social conflicts, and examines a series of texts by Freud, Proust, Baudelaire, and Musset that give voice to the theme of memory.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0801481325
• ISBN 13: 9780801481321
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400