In German Studies the literary phenomenon of melancholy, which has a longstanding and diverse history in European letters, has typically been associated with the Early Modern and Baroque periods, Romanticism, and the crisis of modernity. This association, alongside the dominant …
"In recent years, much Spanish literary criticism has been characterized by debates about collective and historical memory, stemming from a national obsession with the past that has seen an explosion of novels and films about the Spanish Civil War and Franco dictatorship. This g…
This title is squarely situated at the intersection of literature and psychology. Psychologists' dicoveries about when childhood memories form, and what form they most often take, resonate throughout the works of the three writers Martens highlights.
"Memory and Utopian Agency in Utopian/Dystopian Literature: Memory of the Future examines modern and contemporary utopian/dystopian literature's preoccupation with memory, asserting that from the nineteenth century onward, memory and forgetting feature as key problematics in the…
Discusses the science of memory and the interpretation of memory in the novels of Jorge Luis Borges and earlier literatures.