Present Past
Modernity and the Memory Crisis
1st Edition
Published on 31. May 2018
400 pages
978-1-5017-1760-4 (ISBN)
Description
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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Language
English
Place of publication
NY
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
Digital original
ISBN-13
978-1-5017-1760-4 (9781501717604)
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Person
Richard Terdiman is Professor of Literature and the History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Part One: An Introduction to Memory
- 1 Historicizing Memory
- 2 Theorizing Recollection
- Part Two: The Ambiguities of Reminiscence: Two Nineteenth-Century Representations
- 3 The Mnemonics of Musset's Confession
- 4 Baudelaire's "Le Cygne": Memory, History, and the Sign
- Part Three: The Vicissitudes of Recollection: Two Twentieth-Century Theories
- 5 Hypermnesia-Memory in Proust: I. Determinations
- 6 Hypermnesia-Memory in Proust: II. Displacements
- 7 Mnemo-Analysis-Memory in Freud: I. Maieutics
- 8 Mnemo-Analysis-Memory in Freud: II. Hermeneutics
- Conclusion: Reading Memory
- Works Cited
- Index
- A
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- C
- D
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- F
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