The Backward Look: Memory and Writing Self in France 1580-1920 - Softcover

Goodden, Angelica

 
9781900755313: The Backward Look: Memory and Writing Self in France 1580-1920
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1900755319 ISBN 13: 9781900755313
Publisher: Routledge, 2000

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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Angelica Goodden

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2000
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1900755319
ISBN 13 
9781900755313
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
206