The Backward Look - Couverture souple

Goodden, Angelica

 
9781900755313: The Backward Look
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1900755319 ISBN 13 : 9781900755313
Editeur : Routledge, 2000

Synopsis

Theories of memory and fictional recreations of the remembering mind have occupied a central place in French literature since Montaigne. The author investigates the shifting relation between cognitive or "scientific" memory and emotional or spiritual recollection in a series of major writers from the 16th to the 20th centuries. Her study focuses on the 18th century, where the interplay between memory and imagination and the link between self-knowledge and self-presentation are shown to be exceptionally fertile. The philosophical, scientific and fictional writings of Diderot and the novels and autobiographical works of Rousseau are central to this ground-breaking work, which should be of interest to all readers concerned with the specificity of the French literary tradition.

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À propos de l?auteur

Angelica Goodden is Fellow and Tutor in French at St Hilda's College, Oxford. Her previous books include Actio and Persuasion: Dramatic Performance in Eighteenth-Century France (1986), The Complete Lover: Eros, Nature and Artifice in the Eighteenth-Century French Novel (1989) and The Sweetness of Life: A Biography of Elisabeth Louise Vigee Le Brun (1997).

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Éditeur
Routledge
Date d'édition
2000
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1900755319
ISBN 13 
9781900755313
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
206
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Personne responsable
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