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Present Past: Modernity and the Memory Crisis

Present Past: Modernity and the Memory Crisis

by RichardTerdiman (Author)

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    Paperback 1993

    $54.37
Synopsis

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.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 400
 Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 09 Nov 1993
ISBN 10: 0801481325
ISBN 13: 9780801481321

Media Reviews

This breathtaking explication of the importance of memory in modernity sets the stage for brilliant readings that analyze a series of canonical works as symptoms of and reflections on the memory crisis.... Present Past is most importantly a contribution to our historical understanding of modernism and modernity.

-- Eugene W. Holland * Nineteenth-Century French Studies *