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Nostalgia Combray village of narrator and family. [Fr. Lit.: Remembrance of Things Past] singer sends well-wishes to home town. [Am. Pop. Music: Fordin, 531] TV series viewed 1950s America through tinted lenses. [TV: Terrace, I, 337–338] passes the time by listening to tapes on which he had recorded his earlier experiences and reflections. [Br. Drama: Beckett Krapp’s Last Tape in Weiss, 244]
book in which author recalls her precious child-hood years. [Am. Lit.: Magill I, 630–632] “Where are the snows of yesteryear?” [Fr. Lit.: Ballade des Dames du temps ladis, “Villon” in Benét, 1061] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Hence flourish the abiding yet vexed affinities between performance and memory, out of which blossom the most florid nostalgias for authenticity and origin" (Roach 1996:3-4). The central stair seemed to evoke the most nostalgias for the nurses: Several alumnae had the same memory of--at 17 or 18--their mothers sobbing at the base of the stairs, waving goodbye as their daughter's ascended. Locality for the modern nation-state is either a site of nationally appropriated nostalgias, celebrations and commemoration or a necessary condition of the production of nationals. |
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