Nalbantian Memory in Literature

From Rousseau to Neuroscience
Erscheinungsjahr 2002
ISBN: 978-0-230-28712-9
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 185 Seiten, Web PDF

Reihe: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection

This book is the first to discover and probe in depth memory phenomena captured in literary works. Using literature as a laboratory for the workings of the mind, this comparative study of writers from Jean-Jacques Rousseau to Octavio Paz, including Proust, Breton, Woolf and Faulkner, uncovers valuable material for the classification of the memory process. Nalbantian's daring interdisciplinary work, involving literature, science, and art, forges a new model for dialogue between the disciplines.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nalbantian, S.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Plates Acknowledgements Note on the Text Introduction Memory in the Era of Dynamic Psychology: Nineteenth-Century Backgrounds Rousseau and the Romantics: Autobiographical Memory and Emotion Baudelaire, Rimbauld, and Le Cerveau : Sensory Pathways to Memory Proust and the Engram: The Trigger of the Senses Woolf, Joyce and Faulkner: Associative Memory Apollinaire, Breton, and the Surrealists: Automatism and Aleatory Memory Nin, Borges and Paz: Labyrinthine Passageways of Mind and Language The Almond and the Seahorse: Neuroscientific Queries Afterword: Images of the Artists: Dali, Dominguez and Magritte Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

SUZANNE NALBANTIAN is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Long Island University. She received her PhD from Columbia University and is a permanent member of its Society of Fellows in the Humanities. A specialist in nineteenth and twentieth-century European literatures, she is the author of , , and . She has also edited .