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Memory has always been crucial to French literature and culture as
a means of mediating the relationship between perception and
knowledge of the individual coming to terms with his identity in
time. Relatively recently, memory has also emerged as the key force
in the creation of a collective consciousness in the wider
perspective of French cultural history. This collection of essays,
selected from the proceedings of a seminar on 'Memory' given by Dr
Emma Wilson at the University of Cambridge, offers a fresh
evaluation of memory as both a cultural and an individual
phenomenon in modern and contemporary French culture, including
literature, cinema and the visual arts. 'Anamnesia', the book's
title, develops the Aristotelian concept of anamnesis: recollection
as a dynamic and creative process, which includes forgetting as
much as remembering, concealment as much as imagination. Memory in
this extremely diverse range of essays is therefore far from being
presented as a straightforward process of recalling the past, but
emerges as the site of research and renegotiation, of
contradictions and even aporia.
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