Paper Topic Idea

As I was trying to brainstorm a paper topic I thought back on all that we have talked about in this class and I thought back on my years as an English major, and I felt completely lost and overwhelmed. Than I realized that I was continually thinking back to things, revisiting memories and I figured that maybe this was something I could write my paper on. I am not sure if this is just entirely too broad (and I know that right now it is VERY rough) but I thought I would write my paper on, as Proust's editor put it, remembrance of things past. In so many of the texts we have read we have encountered characters being told "remember me" and as an English major about to graduate I cant see a better time than now to reflect on the idea of past memories. I want to basically say that epiphanies are a by-product of memories revisited, like Sexson said "it is not so much visiting a place but re-visiting it" so now after 5 (yes 5!) years of English lit I want to re-visit the world of literature and see why remembering our past is so important, specifically when it comes to Epiphanies. Obviously this is an extremely rough idea as of now, so we will see what happens with it!