Erll Memory in Culture

1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-0-230-32167-0
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 209 Seiten

This 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Erll, A.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Cover;1
2;Title;4
3;Copyright;5
4;Contents;6
5;List of Tables and Figures;8
6;Acknowledgements;9
7;I Introduction: Why ‘Memory’?;11
7.1;I.1 Why ‘memory’?;11
7.2;I.2 Why now?;13
7.3;I.3 What is meant by ‘memory’?;16
7.4;I.4 Memory, remembering or forgetting?;18
7.5;I.5 Goals and structure of this book;19
8;II The Invention of Cultural Memory: A Short History of Memory Studies;23
8.1;II.1 Maurice Halbwachs: Mémoire collective;24
8.2;II.2 Aby Warburg: Mnemosyne – pathos formulas and a European memory of images;29
8.3;II.3 Pierre Nora’s lieux de mémoire – and beyond;32
8.4;II.4 Aleida and Jan Assmann: The Cultural Memory;37
9;III The Disciplines of Memory Studies;48
9.1;III.1 Historical and social memory;48
9.2;III.2 Material memory: Art and literature;76
9.3;III.3 Mind and memory: Psychological approaches;92
10;IV Memory and Culture: A Semiotic Model;105
10.1;IV.1 Metaphors – productive, misleading, and superfluous, or: How to conceive of memory on a collective level;106
10.2;IV.2 Material, social and mental dimensions of memory culture;111
10.3;IV.3 Autobiographical, semantic and procedural systems of cultural memory;115
10.4;IV.4 Related concepts: Collective identity and cultural experience;119
11;V Media and Memory;123
11.1;V.1 Media and the construction of memory;123
11.2;V.2 The history of memory as the history of media;126
11.3;V.3 Medium of memory: A compact concept;130
11.4;V.4 Functions of media of memory;136
11.5;V.5 Concepts of media memory studies;141
12;VI Literature as a Medium of Cultural Memory;154
12.1;VI.1 Literature as a symbolic form of cultural memory;154
12.2;VI.2 Literary text and mnemonic context: Mimesis;162
12.3;VI.3 Literature as a medium of collective and individual memory;170
13;VII Afterword: Whither Memory Studies?;182
14;References;186
15;Index;213