The Anatomy of Memory

James McConkey,

The Anatomy of Memory,

An Anthology,

OUP New York

London

1996.

I. The Nature of Memory

introductory text, Emily Dickinson, "The Brain is wider than the Sky" excerpts from

St. Augustine, Confessions

Frances Yates, The Art of Memory

Rene Dubos, So Human an Animal

Lewis Thomas, The Lives of a Cell:Notes of a Biology Watcher

Sigmund Freud, My Contact with Josef Popper-Lynkeus

Gerald M.Edelman, Bright Air, Brilliant Fire: On the Matternof the Mind

Steven Rose, The Making of Memory

Antonio Damasio, Descartes Error and the Future of Human Life

II. The Memory of Nature

introductory text, Walt Whitman, "Out of the Cradle, endless rocking..."

H.D.Thoreau, Walking

Kim Stafford. A Walk in Early May

John Haines, Moments and Journeys

John Landretti, On Waste Lonely Places

Esther Warner, The Crossing Fee

Loren Eisley, The Brown Wasps

III Memory and Creativity

introductory text Yeats, "Leda and the Swan"

Henri Poincare, Mathematical Creation

William James, The Principles of Psychology

Wordsworth, Preface to Lyrical Ballads

Jung, Psychology and Literature

E.M.Forster, Anonymity; An Enquiry

Clara Claiborne Park, The Mother of the Muses; In Praise of Memory

Marcel proust, from Remembrance of Things Past

Patricia Hampl, Memory and Imagination

Toni Morrison, Memory, Creation and Writing

Eudora Welty, One Writer's Beginnings

IV Memory, Culture and Identity

introductory text from Langston Hughes, "Theme for English B" and excerpts from

Irvin Morris, The Hyatt, the Maori and the Yanamamo

N.Scott Momaday, The Names

James Baldwin, Stranger in the Village

Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

KennethKenneth McClane, Hunger of Memory

Garrett Hongo, Kubota

V Perspectives of Memory

CHILDHOOD AND MIDDLE YEARS

introductory text from Wordsworth, The Two Part Prelude,

Virginia Woolf, A Sketch of the Past

Vladimir Nabokov, Speak Memory

Tobias Wolff, This Boy's Life

E.B.White, Once More to the Lake

F.Dostoevsky, Peasant Marey

Paul West, The Girls and Ghouls of Memory

Alfred Kazin, A Walker in the City

OTHER DIMENSIONS

Marianne Moore, What are Years ?

Michel de Montaigne, Of Practice

Primo Levi, The Periodic Table

Andre Dubus, Broken Vessels

INSIGHTS OF OLD AGE

introductory text, W.B.Yeats, Sailing to Byzantium

and excerpts from

M.F.K.Fisher, To Begin Again : Stories and Memories 1908 -1929

Norman McLean, Young Men and Fire

Iris Origo, Images and Shadows, Part of a Life

VI Beyond Memory

introductory text from A.R.Emmons, For Harold Bloom and excerpts from

Bernard Cooper Maps to Anywhere

James Agee, Let us Now Praise Famous Men

Edwin J.Kenney Jr., Waves

Annie Dillard, Teaching a Stone to Talk

Anton Chekhov, Gusev

St. Augustine, Confessions