Erll / Nünning A Companion to Cultural Memory Studies

An International and Interdisciplinary Handbook
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-3-11-020726-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 8, 452 Seiten

Reihe: Media and Cultural Memory / Medien und kulturelle Erinnerung

This handbook represents the interdisciplinary and international field of “cultural memory studies” for the first time in 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.
“Cultural memory studies” – as defined in this handbook – came into being at the beginning of the 20th century, with the works of Maurice Halbwachs on . In the course of the last two decades this area of research has witnessed a veritable boom in various countries and disciplines. As a consequence, the study of the relation of “culture” and “memory” has diversified into a wide range of approaches. This handbook is based on a broad understanding of “cultural memory” as the interplay of present and past in sociocultural contexts. It presents concepts for the study of individual remembering in a social context, group and family memory, national memory, the various media of memory, and finally the host of emerging transnational such as 9/11.

Zielgruppe

Academics, Libraries, Institutes

Autoren/Hrsg.

Erll, Astrid

Nünning, Ansgar

Weitere Mitwirkende

Young, Sara

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Frontmatter;1
2;Table of Contents;7
3;Cultural Memory Studies: An Introduction;9
4;Loci memoriae—Lieux de mémoire;27
5;Italian luoghi della memoria;35
6;Mitteleuropa as a lieu de mémoire;45
7;Sites of Memory in U.S.-American Histories and Cultures;55
8;Sites of Memory and the Shadow of War;69
9;Memory and the History of Mentalities;85
10;The Invention of Cultural Memory;93
11;Canon and Archive;105
12;Communicative and Cultural Memory;117
13;Generation/Generationality, Generativity, and Memory;127
14;Cultural Memory: A European Perspective;135
15;Maurice Halbwachs’s mémoire collective;149
16;From Collective Memory to the Sociology of Mnemonic Practices and Products;159
17;Memory in Post-Authoritarian Societies;171
18;Memory and Politics;181
19;Social Forgetting: A Systems-Theory Approach;189
20;Memory and Remembrance: A Constructivist Approach;199
21;Memory and Forgetting in Paul Ricoeur’s Theory ofthe Capable Self;211
22;Psychology, Narrative, and Cultural Memory: Past and Present;223
23;Against the Concept of Cultural Trauma;237
24;Experience and Memory: Imaginary Futures in the Past;249
25;A Cognitive Taxonomy of Collective Memories;261
26;Language and Memory: Social and Cognitive Processes;271
27;Cultural Memory and the Neurosciences;283
28;Communicative Memory;293
29;Mnemonic and Intertextual Aspects of Literature;309
30;Cultural Memory and the Literary Canon;319
31;Life-Writing, Cultural Memory, and Literary Studies;329
32;The Literary Representation of Memory;341
33;The Dynamics of Remembrance: Texts Between Monumentality and Morphing;353
34;The Texture of Memory: Holocaust Memorials in History;365
35;The Photograph as Externalization and Trace;375
36;Journalism’s Memory Work;387
37;Literature, Film, and the Mediality of Cultural Memory;397
38;Memory and Media Cultures;407
39;Backmatter;417

Über Autor(innen)

Astrid Erll, University of Wuppertal, Germany; Ansgar Nünning, Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen; Sara B. Young, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.