Theories of Memory

A Reader
Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-0-8018-8729-1
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 328 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 572 g

Theories of Memory provides a comprehensive introduction to the rapidly expanding field of memory studies. It is a resource through which students of literature will be able both to broaden their knowledge of contemporary theoretical perspectives and to trace the development of ideas about memory from the classical period to the present.

The reader is organized into three parts:

Part I, Beginnings, is historical in scope. Its three sections, Classical and Early Modern Ideas of Memory, Enlightenment and Romantic Memory, and Memory and Late Modernity, lay out key psychological, rhetorical, and cultural concepts of memory in the work of a range of thinkers from Plato to Walter Benjamin.

Part II, Positionings, identifies three major perspectives through which memory has been defined and debated more recently: Collective Memory, Jewish Memory Discourse, and Trauma.

Part III, Identities, examines the key role of memory in contemporary constructions of identity under the headings of Gender, Race/Nation, and Diaspora.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rossington, Michael

Whitehead, Anne

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
Introduction
Part I: Beginnings
1. Classical and Early Modern Ideas of Memory
2. Enlightenment and Romantic Memory
3. Memory and Late Modernity
Part II: Positionings
4. Collective Memory
5. Jewish Memory Discourse
6. Trauma
Part III: Identities
7. Gender
8. Race/Nation
9. Disapora
Biographical Details of Editors and Contributing Editors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Rossington, Michael
Michael Rossington is a senior lecturer in English literature at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

Whitehead, Anne
Anne Whitehead is a senior lecturerer in English literature at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

Michael Rossington and Anne Whitehead are senior lecturers in English literature at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.