Literature as a technique of recollection

  • There is a caricature of Marcel Proust in which the despairing writer is consoled by a friend saying, 'Aber, aber, mon cher Marcel, nun versuchen Sie sich doch zu erinnern, wo Sie die Zeit verloren haben.' Literature in general, not only A La Recherche du Temps Perdu, deals with a different form of memory than that of mnemonics, in which the hints of places lead to a retrieval of what has been stored there before. Nevertheless it is difficult to pinpoint the criteria that make this difference. How does literature transcend the technologically limited sense of memory in terms of a storage and retrieval system? ...

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Author:Peter Matussek
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1122858
URL:http://peter-matussek.de/Pub/A_11.pdf
ISBN:9073022118
ISBN:9789073022119
Editor:Frank Brinkhuis, Sascha Talmor
Document Type:Part of a Book
Language:English
Year of Completion:1996
Year of first Publication:1996
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2009/03/03
GND Keyword:Intertextualität
Page Number:9
First Page:1
Last Page:9
Note:
Erschienen in: Frank Brinkhuis ; Sascha Talmor (Hrsg.): Memory, history and critique : proceedings of the fifth conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas (ISSEI), 19-24 August 1996, Utrecht : UvH/ISSEI, 1998, ISBN: 9073022118, ISBN: 9789073022119
Source:(in:) "Proceedings of the 1996 ISSEI Conference"; CD-ROM MIT Press.
HeBIS-PPN:212627376
Institutes:keine Angabe Fachbereich / Extern
Dewey Decimal Classification:8 Literatur / 80 Literatur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft / 800 Literatur und Rhetorik
Sammlungen:CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
Licence (German):License LogoDeutsches Urheberrecht