Why Lifе Spееds Up As You Gеt Oldеr: How Mеmory Shаpеs our Pаst
Publisher: Саmbridgе Univеrsity Prеss
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2006-09-18
List price: $18.99
Is it true, as the novelist Cees Nooteboom once wrote, that memory is like a dog that lies down where it pleases? Where do the long, lazy summers of our childhood go? Why, as we grow older, does time seem to condense, speed up and elude us, while in old age, significant events from our distant past can seem as vivid and real as what happened yesterday? Douwe Draaisma, author of the internationally acclaimed Metaphors of Memory (Cambridge, 2001), explores the nature of autobiographical memory. Applying a unique blend of scholarship, poetic sensibility, and keen observation, he tackles such ex...