Memory in Literature
Subtitle: From Rousseau to Neuroscience
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: September 6, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9781403966872
Subjects: Literary studies: general; Literature - Classics / Criticism; General; Textbooks; French; Literary Criticism; Europe; Literature, Modern; Books & Reading; Literary Criticism & Collections / Books & Reading; Psychology & Psychiatry / General; European - General; European - French; History and criticism; Memory in literature
First sentence: Historically speaking, late-nineteenth-century French psychology provides a backdrop to the literary exploitation of memory and, interestingly and not fully acknowledged, a point of departure for current debates in neuroscience.