Author : Michaela M. Grobbel
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739134887
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Enacting Past and Present by : Michaela M. Grobbel
Download or read book Enacting Past and Present written by Michaela M. Grobbel and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2009-01-28 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a discussion of Walter Benjamin, Sigmund Freud, Mieke Bal and others, author Michaela Grobbel focuses on the work three women authors as types of performance which lead to re-presentations of memory. These women writers foreground the present but also critically demonstrate the complex relationship of the present to the past. Grobbel's work is a critical addition to any discussion of feminism, memory and literary modernism.