The promise of memory
Subtitle: childhood recollection and its objects in literary modernism
By: Lorna Martens
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780674061460
Subjects: Memory in literature; Modernism (Literature); History and criticism; Modern Literature; Psychoanalysis and literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: writing childhood memory; title: Introduction to the present study; title: Overview: objectives and methods; title: Childhood autobiography; title: Remembering: Wordsworth versus the modernists; title: Memory theory: Freud and the aftermath; title: The effect of psychoanalytical and psychological memory theory on literature; title: The importance of things and places in childhood memories; title: Memory as text: the importance of form; title: Constructing buried treasure: Proust's childhood memories; title: Making things out of fear: Rilke and childhood memory; title: Collecting the past, prefiguring the future: Benjamin remembering his childhood; title: Conclusion.