{"title":"Memory as Seriality: Re-cognizing Gertrude Stein","authors":"S. Sielke","doi":"10.1353/mfs.2022.0047","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Interrogating concepts of memory at the interfaces of literary and cultural studies and the cognitive sciences, this essay calls on the paradigmatic modernist Gertrude Stein. Stein’s sense of cognitive processes as repetition with variation—or insistence, as the author put it—not only highlights the value of the term seriality for an understanding of memory in both fields. Quite surprisingly, the author’s very resistance to memory closely relates to current notions, in cognition research, of how memory works: as a mode of perception that remembers forward rather than backward and that is highly dependent on forgetting.","PeriodicalId":45576,"journal":{"name":"MFS-Modern Fiction Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5000,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"MFS-Modern Fiction Studies","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2022.0047","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LITERATURE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:Interrogating concepts of memory at the interfaces of literary and cultural studies and the cognitive sciences, this essay calls on the paradigmatic modernist Gertrude Stein. Stein’s sense of cognitive processes as repetition with variation—or insistence, as the author put it—not only highlights the value of the term seriality for an understanding of memory in both fields. Quite surprisingly, the author’s very resistance to memory closely relates to current notions, in cognition research, of how memory works: as a mode of perception that remembers forward rather than backward and that is highly dependent on forgetting.
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Modern Fiction Studies publishes engaging articles on prominent works of modern and contemporary fiction. Emphasizing historical, theoretical, and interdisciplinary approaches, the journal encourages a dialogue between fiction and theory, publishing work that offers new theoretical insights, clarity of style, and completeness of argument. Modern Fiction Studies alternates general issues dealing with a wide range of texts with special issues focused on single topics or individual writers.
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