Memory: An Anthology by A.S. Byatt (English) Paperback Book

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Arranged in themed sections, the book includes specially commissioned essays by the editors and by writers with expertise in different fields - from 'Memory and Evolution' by Patrick Bateson to 'Memory and Forgetting' by the biographer Richard Holmes, and an account of the chemistry of the brain by Steven Rose.

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A packed, provocative anthology on a subject close to us all, with analyses of memory (and forgetting) ranging from childhood recollections to the latest neuroscience, Plato to Freud, medieval poets to London taxi drivers.This fascinating anthology introduces us to a wide range of arguments on the subject of memory, the thread that holds our lives, and our history, together. Arranged in themed sections, the book includes specially commissioned essays by the editors and by writers with expertise in different fields - from 'Memory and Evolution' by Patrick Bateson to 'Memory and Forgetting' by the biographer Richard Holmes, and an account of the chemistry of the brain by Steven Rose.Complementing the essays are a rich selection of extracts from writers and thinkers such as Plato and Aristotle, Montaigne and Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Proust, Jorge Luis Borges and Haruki Murakami. Stimulating, provocative, funny or profoundly moving, Memory is a book to treasure - and remember.

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Essays on the subject of memory, from medieval poets to the latest neuroscience.

Author Biography

Harriet Harvey Wood is the former Head of Literature at the British Council.A.S. Byatt is internationally acclaimed as a novelist, short story-writer and critic. Her books include Possession (winner of the Booker Prize in 1990), and the quartet of The Virgin in the Garden, Still Life, Babel Tower and A Whistling Woman. Educated at York and Newnham College, Cambridge, she taught at the Central School of Art and Design, and was Senior Lecturer in English at University College, London, before becoming a full-time writer in 1983. She was appointed CBE in 1990 and DBE in 1999.

Review

A book for the magpies among us, designed to be dipped in to time after time ... absorbing anthology * Sunday Herald *The appeal of this scholarly and thoughtful anthology is that it juxtaposes glancing insights with painstaking research... the two introductions... display something of the combined tastes and talents that have gone into this fascinating compilation -- Penelope Lively * Financial Times *Rich and thought-provoking... What is appealing about this anthology (and I write as someone who on the whole dislikes them) is that it not only gives examples of the myriad responses that memory evokes but it offers theories that try to account for it * The Times *A fascinating and topical encyclopaedia on a little understood subject... a forensic strike at the quivering fragility of what and how we remember * Big Issue *Engaging...constantly surprising * Scotland on Sunday *

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A packed, provocative anthology on a subject close to us all, with analyses of memory (and forgetting) ranging from childhood recollections to the latest neuroscience, Plato to Freud, medieval poets to London taxi drivers.

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A book for the magpies among us, designed to be dipped in to time after time ... absorbing anthology

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"A fascinating and topical encyclopedia on a little-understood subject . . . a forensic strike at the quivering fragility of what and how we remember." Big Issue

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A packed, provocative anthology on a subject close to us all, with analyses of memory (and forgetting) ranging from childhood recollections to the latest neuroscience, Plato to Freud, medieval poets to London taxi drivers.

Details ISBN0099470136 Author Harriet Harvey Wood Pages 432 Year 2009 ISBN-10 0099470136 ISBN-13 9780099470137 Format Paperback Publication Date 2009-01-01 Imprint Vintage Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 153.12 Media Book Language English Publisher Vintage Publishing Short Title Memory Subtitle An Anthology UK Release Date 2009-01-01 AU Release Date 2009-01-01 NZ Release Date 2009-01-01 Translator Robert Chandler Edited by Ana Sofia Ribeiro Birth 1969 Affiliation Research Scholar, Amal Jyothi Centre for Nanoscience and Technology, Kerala, India Position UN Under-Secretary General and Rector Qualifications QC Alternative 9781448162659 Audience General We've got this

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