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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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