The promise of memory : childhood recollection and its objects in literary modernism /
Martens, Lorna,1946-
Cambridge, Mass. ; London : Harvard University Press,
c2011.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Memory in literature.
Modernism (Literature)
Psychoanalysis and literature.
Literature, Modern