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Memory in Literature

From Rousseau to Neuroscience

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  • © 2003

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  1. Suzanne Nalbantian
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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    • Suzanne Nalbantian
    Pages 1-5

  3. Memory in the Era of Dynamic Psychology: Nineteenth-Century Backgrounds

    • Suzanne Nalbantian
    Pages 6-23

  4. Rousseau and the Romantics: Autobiographical Memory and Emotion

    • Suzanne Nalbantian
    Pages 24-42

  5. Baudelaire, Rimbaud and ‘Le Cerveau’: Sensory Pathways to Memory

    • Suzanne Nalbantian
    Pages 43-59

  6. Proust and the Engram: The Trigger of the Senses

    • Suzanne Nalbantian
    Pages 60-76

  7. Woolf, Joyce and Faulkner: Associative Memory

    • Suzanne Nalbantian
    Pages 77-99

  8. Apollinaire, Breton and the Surrealists: Automatism and Aleatory Memory

    • Suzanne Nalbantian
    Pages 100-116

  9. Nin, Borges and Paz: Labyrinthine Passageways of Mind and Language

    • Suzanne Nalbantian
    Pages 117-134

  10. The Almond and the Seahorse: Neuroscientific Perspectives

    • Suzanne Nalbantian
    Pages 135-152

  11. Afterword. Images of the Artists: Dalí, Dominguez and Magritte

    • Suzanne Nalbantian
    Pages 153-158

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 159-185
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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.

Reviews

'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 Rabaté, 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 neuroscience, is most impressive. As she moves easily between languages she achieves an overview of the subject that is linguistically unconfined' - Professor James Olney, Louisiana State University

'There is much of interest here and much to learn from this sophisticated book.' - Brain: A Journal of Neurology

'well-informed and readable book' - Michael Eskin, Arcadia

About the author

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 The Symbol of the Soul from Hoderlin to Yeats, Seeds of Decadence in the Late Nineteenth-Century Novel, and Aesthetic Autobiography: From Life to Art in Marcel Proust, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and Anais Nin. She has also edited Anais Nin: Literary Perspectives.

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