ISBN:
9783110188608
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (452 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version A Companion to Cultural Memory Studies
DDC:
306.01
Keywords:
Culture
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Memory ; Cross-cultural studies
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
This handbook represents the interdisciplinary and international field of "cultural memory studies" for the first time in one volume. Articles by renowned international scholars offer readers a unique overview of the key concepts of cultural memory studies. The handbook not only documents current research in an unprecedented way; it also serves as a forum for bringing together approaches from areas as varied as sociology, political sciences, history, theology, literary studies, media studies, philosophy, psychology, and neurosciences
Description / Table of Contents:
Frontmatter; Table of Contents; Cultural Memory Studies: An Introduction; Loci memoriae-Lieux de mémoire; Italian luoghi della memoria; Mitteleuropa as a lieu de mémoire; Sites of Memory in U.S.-American Histories and Cultures; Sites of Memory and the Shadow of War; Memory and the History of Mentalities; The Invention of Cultural Memory; Canon and Archive; Communicative and Cultural Memory; Generation/Generationality, Generativity, and Memory; Cultural Memory: A European Perspective; Maurice Halbwachs's mémoire collective
Description / Table of Contents:
From Collective Memory to the Sociology of Mnemonic Practices and ProductsMemory in Post-Authoritarian Societies; Memory and Politics; Social Forgetting: A Systems-Theory Approach; Memory and Remembrance: A Constructivist Approach; Memory and Forgetting in Paul Ricoeur's Theory ofthe Capable Self; Psychology, Narrative, and Cultural Memory: Past and Present; Against the Concept of Cultural Trauma; Experience and Memory: Imaginary Futures in the Past; A Cognitive Taxonomy of Collective Memories; Language and Memory: Social and Cognitive Processes; Cultural Memory and the Neurosciences
Description / Table of Contents:
Communicative MemoryMnemonic and Intertextual Aspects of Literature; Cultural Memory and the Literary Canon; Life-Writing, Cultural Memory, and Literary Studies; The Literary Representation of Memory; The Dynamics of Remembrance: Texts Between Monumentality and Morphing; The Texture of Memory: Holocaust Memorials in History; The Photograph as Externalization and Trace; Journalism's Memory Work; Literature, Film, and the Mediality of Cultural Memory; Memory and Media Cultures; Backmatter
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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