Literary Memory: Scott's Waverley Novels and the Psychology of NarrativeBucknell University Press, 2003 - 249 頁 This book draws together three different but related kinds of inquiry. First, it approaches the history and theory of memory in the long eighteenth century to focus on the philosphical and literary writing of Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment Scotland. Debates about the significance ad working of memory and the nature of cognition were recurrent and contentious throughout the period, and were particularly pronunced in Scotland, where the psychological tradition of common sense philosophy developed in response to the skeptial metaphysics of David Hume. This book examines the importance of these debates for the literature and culture of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries: Walter Scott is exemplary, as his thinking about memory was conditioned by the epistemologial arguments of the Scottish enlightenment. Second, it studies Scott's rhetoric of memory and his engagement with, and transformation of, Enlightenment psychological categories, most significantly in the Waverley Novels. Finally, this book is concerned with the role of memory in literary creativity. |
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... gives dramatic shape to the memory - tombstone analogy in the frame to The Tale of Old Mortality to interrogate the relationship between memory , which includes forgetting , and writing . Old Mortality is representative of Scott's ...
... gives dramatic shape to the memory - tombstone analogy in the frame to The Tale of Old Mortality to interrogate the relationship between memory , which includes forgetting , and writing . Old Mortality is representative of Scott's ...
第 82 頁
... gives specific economic details of the earnings possible through a season of whaling ( £ 20 to £ 30 per sailor , the whole return between £ 25,000 and £ 30,000 ) and describes the Shetlanders ' custom of treating their English mess ...
... gives specific economic details of the earnings possible through a season of whaling ( £ 20 to £ 30 per sailor , the whole return between £ 25,000 and £ 30,000 ) and describes the Shetlanders ' custom of treating their English mess ...
第 90 頁
... give reason- able indication of what must once have been , the tone of the society in these sequestered but interesting ... gives particu- lar attention to the physical appearance and climate of Shetland , its cus- toms and beliefs , and ...
... give reason- able indication of what must once have been , the tone of the society in these sequestered but interesting ... gives particu- lar attention to the physical appearance and climate of Shetland , its cus- toms and beliefs , and ...
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