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Author Martens, Lorna, 1946- author.

Title The promise of memory : childhood recollection and its objects in literary modernism / Lorna Martens.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [2011]
©2011

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Description 1 online resource (x, 272 pages)
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: writing childhood memory -- Childhood memory in modernism -- 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.
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Subject Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922.
Rilke, Rainer Maria, 1875-1926.
Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940.
Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939.
Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922.
Rilke, Rainer Maria, 1875-1926.
Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940.
Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939.
Memory in literature.
Memory in literature.
Modernism (Literature)
Modernism (Literature)
Psychoanalysis and literature.
Psychoanalysis and literature.
Literature, Modern -- History and criticism.
Literature, Modern.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Martens, Lorna, 1946- Promise of memory. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, ©2011 9780674061460 (DLC) 2010051948 (OCoLC)693208219
ISBN 9780674063105 (electronic book)
0674063104 (electronic book)
9780674061460 (cloth)
0674061462 (cloth)