ISBN:
9783631896440
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (248 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Series Statement:
Transatlantic Studies in British and North American Culture Series v.39
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
909
Keywords:
Collective memory
;
Social psychology
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
The volume consists of 15 papers discussing a vast array of issues and aspects relating to the concept of cultural memory. Taking as a standpoint the Halbwachs/Assman critical tradition, the individual contributions trace the relevance of the concept in the context of a wide range of areas, from medieval studies, through Victorian culture.
Abstract:
Cover -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Part I. Beyond Them is More than Memory - Tolkienian Contexts -- Tolkien's Conception of Recovery as a Function of Memory -- On the Function of Memory in J. R. R. Tolkien's Conception of the Elves -- Medieval Fantasy and Romanticism: Tolkien's Response to World War One -- Part II. A noble story Worþi to be drawen in memory - Medieval Contexts -- Reviving the Memory of Medieval Martial Arts in a Broader Context of Medieval Studies -- Primitivism and Medievalism in the Art of Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven -- "Merry Old England". The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle and the Twice Told Tale Convention -- Part III. A wind of memory murmuring the past - Modern Contexts -- "The Worship which is Love": Memory and Revisionism in Alfred Tennyson's "Demeter and Persephone" -- 1. Introduction: Memory and mythological revisionism -- 2. Victorian secularism and Hellenic myth -- 3. Tennyson's portrayal of Demeter and Persephone -- 4. Conclusions -- Paratextual Authenticity and Fossilised Framing: Visual Memory of the 1888 Whitechapel Victims -- Palaeontological Metaphors of Remembered and Forgotten Past in Tracy Chevalier's Remarkable Creatures -- Introduction -- The fossil is created -- What a fossil is and what it is not -- The fossil is found, sold, or collected -- Concluding remarks -- From Authenticity to Profilicity: Remembering Princess Diana in The Crown (season 4, 2020), Spencer (2021), and Diana: The Musical (2021) -- Part IV. Any memory's a precious thing - Fantasy Contexts -- Memory in Susanna Clarke's Piranesi -- 1. Piranesi's spatial memory -- 2. Piranesi's Journals -- 3. Piranesi's amnesia and new identity -- "The story is all of the voices": On Collective Narration in The Mere Wife and The Penelopiad -- 1. Introduction.
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