OODOC RECHERCHE & PUBLICATION DE DOCUMENTS

    Votre panier

    Accéder

    5.5

    Docs en anglais
    publié le 16/07/2012

    3,60 €

    Kate Atkinson: "Behind the Scenes at the Museum": essay on Memory

    Document de 5.5 pages au format WORD

    RÉSUMÉ

    This five-page essay discusses Memory in the novel by Kate Atksinson Behind the Scenes at the Museum.

    AUTRES

    Extract:

    In psychology, memory is on organism's ability to store, retain, and subsequently retrieve information. There are several ways to classify memories, based on duration, nature and retrieval of information. Kate Atkinson, in Behind the Scenes at the Museum, uses the structure of recovered memory to reveal the truth, which appears to be the truth for the reader but also for the main character of the story, Ruby. At least, this discovering of the truth can resolve divided memory; in other terms, it can show the reader and Ruby what's “behind the scenes”, all the things that she should have known to build her own life. But Ruby's self conception is also a pretext, for Atkinson, thanks to different objects surviving into the present, for introducing family's history, which is strongly linked to History too. It is a complex narration, founded upon different uses of memory, and lapse of memory.

    [...] During several moments in Atkinson's novel, it's quite hard to make the difference between the story and History. At least, this book appears to be, in different ways, a historical documentary, using precise details and talking about real events. It requires, for the reader and the narrator, conscious recall. We are now going to deal with historical memory in Behind the Scenes, which also backgrounds the narration and Ruby's story.
    To start, we can notice the difference between two different ways of using historical memory. On the one hand, a precise historical event is a way to underline Ruby's story, or a member of her family. Not only can historical events serve as a backcloth to the characters' lives but in some cases they can also determine their destiny. Such is the case of the two World Wars. We will develop those two ideas thanks to different examples (...)

    Outline:

    Introduction

    I) A story strongly linked to historical Memory

    II) A comic family saga which seems to follow a memorial project

    III) The relation between omission and memory in the whole story

    Conclusion

    5.5

    Docs en anglais publié le 16/07/2012

    3,60 €

    Recommandations

    Du même auteur

    Voir toutes les publications de cet auteur

    Nouveautés en Docs en anglais

    Aller à la catégorie

    Les plus consultées

    • Marketing Study including SWOT analysis: Coca Cola

      1,80 €

      2.5

      Docs en anglais publié le 28/06/2010

      Descriptif

      History, background and reasons for the huge international success of Coca Cola. Extrait: Today, we will talk about a famous beverage, or we can say that it is more like a common phenomenon. If you are recognized as...

    • Le cas de la fusion Renault/Nissan

      1,80 €

      10

      Docs en anglais publié le 05/03/2006

      Descriptif

      Cette présentation de type PowerPoint réalisée en anglais étudie les problèmes organisationnels, structurels, culturels et stratégiques soulevés par les fusions des deux groupes Renault et Nissan, et les actions...

    • Essay: Number Eight, by Jack Richie

      3,60 €

      2.5

      Docs en anglais publié le 13/12/2007

      Descriptif

      Essay dealing with "Number 8", a short story written by Jack Ritchie. The first part introduces the two main characters: a mysterious narrator who is driving a car, and a young hitch hiker he picked up on the road. The setting is disconcerting: they...

    Accès membre

    Votre panier

    Derniers vus

    Publier vos documents

     

    Charte qualité

    déplier