Memory in Literature From Rousseau to Neuroscience [Paperback]

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.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

'In this book, Suzanne Nalbantian boldly ushers in a new way of writing

about literature. She bridges the gap between literary criticism and the

neurosciences by focusing on the phenomenon of memory as a site of

interdisciplinary interaction. Fully informed about the recent

developments of neurosciences, this book reopens a debate initiated at the

turn of the last century with James and Bergson...' - Professor Jean-Michel Rabat?, University of Pennsylvania

'Suzanne Nalbantian's Memory in Literature is a remarkable contribution to the voluminous literature on this most popular of subjects. Her range of reference, which includes not only a dozen major novelists and poets but painters as well along with all the major players from psychology and lc›