The Backward Look : Memory and Writing Self in France 1580-1920, Paperback / softback Book

The Backward Look : Memory and Writing Self in France 1580-1920 Paperback / softback

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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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