Present Past : : Modernity and the Memory Crisis / / Richard Terdiman.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Terdiman, Richard,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]; ©1993
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (400 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Abbreviations --; Part One AN INTRODUCTION TO MEMORY --; 1. Historicizing Memory --; 2. Theorizing Recollection --; Part Two THE AMBIGUITIES OF REMINISCENCE: TWO NINETEENTH-CENTURY REPRESENTATIONS --; 3. The Mnemonics of Musset's Confession --; 4. Baudelaire's "Le Cygne": Memory, History, and the Sign --; Part Three THE VICISSITUDES OF RECOLLECTION: TWO TWENTIETH-CENTURY THEORIES --; 5. Hypermnesia–Memory in Proust I. Determinations --; 6. Hypermnesia–Memory in Proust II. Displacements --; 7. Mnemo-Analysis–Memory in Freud I. Maieutics --; 8. Mnemo-Analysis–Memory in Freud II. Hermeneutics --; Conclusion: Reading Memory --; Works Cited --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781501717604; 9783110536171
• DOI: 10.7591/9781501717604
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Richard Terdiman.

This book is about memory—about how the past persists into the present, and about how this persistence has been understood over the past two centuries. Since the French Revolution, memory has been the source of an intense disquiet. Fundamental cultural theories have sought to understand it, and have striven to represent its stresses.