Promise of Memory - Childhood Recollection and Its Objects in Literary Modernism

Informationen zum Autor Lorna Martens is Professor of German and Comparative Literature at the University of Virginia. Klappentext We once believed in the power of Proust's madeleine and Wordsworth's boyhood memories--before literary culture began to defer to Freud's questioning of adult memories of childhood. In this first sustained look at childhood memories as depicted in literature, Lorna Martens reveals how much we may have lost by turning our attention the other way. Zusammenfassung We once believed in the power of Proust’s madeleine and Wordsworth’s boyhood memories—before literary culture began to defer to Freud’s questioning of adult memories of childhood. In this first sustained look at childhood memories as depicted in literature, Lorna Martens reveals how much we may have lost by turning our attention the other way.

Product details

• Authors: Lorna Martens
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.10.2011
• EAN: 9780674061460
• ISBN: 978-0-674-06146-0
• No. of pages: 284
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 241 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Memoirs, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: general, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Age groups: children