- Summary
- These essays survey the histories, the theories and the fault lines that compose the field of memory research. Drawing on the advances in the sciences and in the humanities, they address the question of how memory works, highlighting transactions between the interiority of subjective memory and the larger fields of public or collective memory.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- New York : Fordham University Press, 2010
- Edition
- First edition
- Contents
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Introduction: mapping memory / Susannah Radstone and Bill Schwarz
How to make a composition: memory-craft in antiquity and the middle ages / Mary Carruthers
The reformation of memory in early modern Europe / Peter Sherlock
Memory, temporality, modernity: Les lieux de mémoire / Bill Schwarz
Bergson on memory / Keith Ansell-Pearson
Halbwachs and the social properties of memory / Erika Apfelbaum
Memory in Freud / Richard Terdiman
Proust: the music of memory / Michael Wood
Siegfriend Kracauer and Walter Benjamin: memory from Weimar to Hitler / Esther Leslie
Adorno on the destruction of memory / Brian O'Connor
Acts of memory and mourning: Derrida and the fictions of anteriority / Gerhard Richter
Deleuze and the overcoming of memory / Keith Ansell-Pearson
Memory and the unconscious / Roger Kennedy
Memories are made of this / Steven Rose
Memory and cognition / John Sutton, Celia B. Harris, and Amanda J. Barnier
Physiological memory systems / Howard Caygill
Memory-talk : London childhoods / Sally Alexander
Affect and embodiment / Felicity Callard and Constantina Papoulias
Telling stories: memory and narrative / Mark Freeman
Ritual and memory / Stephan Feuchtwang
A long war: public memory and the popular media / Paula Hamilton
Sites of memory / Jay Winter
Cinema and memory / Susannah Radstone
Machines of memory / Steve Goodman and Luciana Parisi
Slavery, historicism, and the poverty of memorialization / Stephan Palmié
Soviet memories: patriotism and trauma / Catherine Merridale
The witness in the archive: holocaust studies/memory studies / Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer
The long afterlife of loss / Eva Hoffman
Migration, food, memory, and home-building / Ghassan Hage
The seventh veil: feminism, recovered memory, and the politics of the inconscious / Janice Haaken
The gender of memory in post-apartheid South Africa / Annie E. Coombes
Afterword / Luisa Passerini.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Radstone, Susannah.
Schwarz, Bill, 1951-
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: mapping memory / Susannah Radstone and Bill Schwarz -- How to make a composition: memory-craft in antiquity and the middle ages / Mary Carruthers -- The reformation of memory in early modern Europe / Peter Sherlock -- Memory, temporality, modernity: Les lieux de mémoire / Bill Schwarz -- Bergson on memory / Keith Ansell-Pearson -- Halbwachs and the social properties of memory / Erika Apfelbaum -- Memory in Freud / Richard Terdiman -- Proust: the music of memory / Michael Wood -- Siegfriend Kracauer and Walter Benjamin: memory from Weimar to Hitler / Esther Leslie -- Adorno on the destruction of memory / Brian O'Connor -- Acts of memory and mourning: Derrida and the fictions of anteriority / Gerhard Richter -- Deleuze and the overcoming of memory / Keith Ansell-Pearson -- Memory and the unconscious / Roger Kennedy -- Memories are made of this / Steven Rose -- Memory and cognition / John Sutton, Celia B. Harris, and Amanda J. Barnier -- Physiological memory systems / Howard Caygill -- Memory-talk : London childhoods / Sally Alexander -- Affect and embodiment / Felicity Callard and Constantina Papoulias -- Telling stories: memory and narrative / Mark Freeman -- Ritual and memory / Stephan Feuchtwang -- A long war: public memory and the popular media / Paula Hamilton -- Sites of memory / Jay Winter -- Cinema and memory / Susannah Radstone -- Machines of memory / Steve Goodman and Luciana Parisi -- Slavery, historicism, and the poverty of memorialization / Stephan Palmié -- Soviet memories: patriotism and trauma / Catherine Merridale -- The witness in the archive: holocaust studies/memory studies / Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer -- The long afterlife of loss / Eva Hoffman -- Migration, food, memory, and home-building / Ghassan Hage -- The seventh veil: feminism, recovered memory, and the politics of the inconscious / Janice Haaken -- The gender of memory in post-apartheid South Africa / Annie E. Coombes -- Afterword / Luisa Passerini.
