Nabokov and Bergson: the optical expression of time in "Speak, memory"

• Main Author: Karunungan, Patricia Arreola
• Other Authors: Kevin Andrew Riordan
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Literature::English
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/70631
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

"Speak, Memory", the title of Vladimir Nabokov’s autobiography, is a synecdoche for the contentions between memory and language. It posits language as the medium of memory, but as a medium it is inherently problematic: is memory shaped—that is, altered, transformed, or even manipulated—by...