.png){kind=logo}
Stock image for illustration purposes only - book cover, edition or condition may vary.
Memory in Literature: From Rousseau to Neuroscience
Suzanne Nalbantian
€ 66.46
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for Memory in Literature: From Rousseau to Neuroscience
Hardcover. 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. Num Pages: 195 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; JMRM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 367.
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.
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.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Number of Pages
185
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780333740651
SKU
V9780333740651
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Suzanne Nalbantian
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Memory in Literature: From Rousseau to Neuroscience
'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 ... Read more