Notes for Lit H3:

• Linguistics and Literature, Raymond Chapman, Page 3

Amnesiac Novels:

• http://www.amazon.co.uk/tag/fiction/forum?cdThread=Tx169K9223JLKM
• http://ask.metafilter.com/158057/Searching-for-interesting-stories-about-total-memory-loss
• Amnesia -- Douglas Cooper
• Man Walks Into A Room -- Nicole Krauss
• Memento Mori -- Jonathan Nolan
  • http://www.impulsenine.com/homepage/pages/shortstories/memento_mori.htm
• Coma -- Alex Garland
• The Raw Shark Texts -- Steven Hall (http://www.squidoo.com/rawsharktexts)
  • Can be found in NLB
• Scar Tissue -- Michael Ignatieff
• The Vintage Book of Amnesia -- Jonathan Lethem
• Other People -- Martin Amis
• Remainder -- Tom McCarthy
• The Memory Artists -- Jeffrey Moore
  • http://aelaq.org/mrb/feature.php?issue=13&article=361&cat=1
  • http://www.bookslut.com/features/2006_07_009373.php
• The Giver -- Lois Lowry
• Memory Wall -- Anthony Doerr
  • http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/29/books/29book.html
  • http://www.granta.com/Interview-with-Anthony-Doerr
  • http://www.oregonlive.com/books/index.ssf/2010/07/fiction_review_memory_wall_by.html
• The Persistence of Memory -- Tony Eprile [English EPR]
  • http://www.mostlyfiction.com/world/eprile.htm

Other resources:

• Memory in Literature -- Suzanne Nalbatian
  • http://books.google.com/books?id=tIk1_-A4ZfoC&dq=literature+with+memory+as+a+theme&printsec=frontcover&source=in&hl=en&ei=IvVPTa2sD9DJrAeUjZnaBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=11&ved=0CGwQ6AEwCg#v=onepage&q&f=false
• Architexts of Memory
  • http://books.google.com/books?id=bMRuB2f-EYMC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

Useful sites:

• http://www.amazon.co.uk/tag/fiction/forum?cdThread=Tx169K9223JLKM
• http://ask.metafilter.com/158057/Searching-for-interesting-stories-about-total-memory-loss
• http://memoryliterature.blogspot.com/
• http://www.smith.edu/calc/amnesia/manifesto.html
• http://www.smith.edu/calc/publications.html
• http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~kihlstrm/literature.htm

Aspects of Amnesiac Novels

• Unreliable Narrator
• Plot devices -- flashbacks
• First person vs. Third person