Memory in CultureThis book questions the sociocultural dimensions of remembering. It offers an overview of the history and theory of memory studies through the lens of sociology, political science, anthropology, psychology, literature, art and media studies; documenting current international and interdisciplinary memory research in an unprecedented way. |
Contents
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A Short History of Memory Studies | 13 |
III The Disciplines of Memory Studies | 38 |
A Semiotic Model | 95 |
V Media and Memory | 113 |
VI Literature as a Medium of Cultural Memory | 144 |
Whither Memory Studies? | 172 |
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Aby Warburg Aleida Assmann Andrew Hoskins approaches archive autobiographical memory canon cognitive collective identity collective memory communicative memory concept of memory construction contexts cultural memory studies cultural remembering cultural text dimension of memory discourses emphasizes episodic memory example experience fictional field film focus forgetting framework fundamental genre Halbwachs Halbwachs’s historians historiography history of memory Holocaust ibid images individual memory interdisciplinary intertextuality Jan Assmann lieux de mémoire literary studies literary text literature’s mass media Maurice Halbwachs meaning media of memory media technologies medium of cultural mémoire collective memory culture memory films memory of literature memory research metaphors mimesis2 mnemonic modes narrative narratology Nora novels objectivations Olick oral history perspective procedural memory processes psychology reality remediation representation schemata semantic memory semiotic shape sites of memory social memory society sociocultural specific storage stories structure symbolic forms temporal term theory tion tive tradition transcultural understanding versions Warburg