Present Past

Present Past
Author: Richard Terdiman
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 405
Release: 2018-05-31
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 150171760X

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.