Synopses & Reviews
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, Proust to Faulkner, and others, 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.
Review
"In this book, Suzanne Nalbantian boldly ushers in a new way of writing about literature...this book reopens a debate initiated at the turn of the last century with James and Bergson..." -- Jean-Michel Rabate, University of Pennsylvania
"Suzanne Nalbantian's Memory in Literature is a remarkable contribution to the voluminous literature on this most popular of subjects." -- James Olney, Louisiana State University
About the Author
Suzanne Nalbantian is Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Long Island University.
Table of Contents
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