Childhood As Memory, Myth and Metaphor

Catherine Crimp

Childhood As Memory, Myth and Metaphor

2013

This book examines how childhood functions as memory, myth, and metaphor in the works of Marcel Proust, Samuel Beckett, and Louise Bourgeois, analyzing their literary and artistic representations of children and childhood experiences.

Children in literatureProust, marcel, 1871-1922Beckett, samuel, 1906-1989Bourgeois, louise, 1911-2010Children in artBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHYLiteraryCriticism and interpretation