Research Catalog

Title

Memory in culture / Astrid Erll ; translated by Sara B. Young.

Author

Erll, Astrid

Publication

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

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Details

Description

ix, 209 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

"Memory in Cultureis an introduction to one of the most exciting new interdisciplinary fields of research: cultural memory studies. Who was Maurice Halbwachs, and what are the "social frameworks of memory"? What can Aby Warburg's work tell us about the "memory of art"? How do Pierre Nora's lieux de mémoire connect history and memory? Where does the ancient art of memory meet the neurosciences? How do media shape our most personal memories? And can remembrance become globalized? Memory in Culture addresses these and many other questions about the socio-cultural dimensions of remembering, offeringa unique overview of the history and theory of memory studies. With the concise presentation of key concepts from history, sociology, political sciences, anthropology, psychology, literary, art and media studies, it documents current international and interdisciplinary memory research in an unprecedented way."--Pub. desc.

Series Statement

Palgrave Macmillan memory studies

Uniform Title

• Kollektives Gedächtnis und Errinnerungskulturen. English
• Palgrave Macmillan memory studies.

Alternative Title

Kollektives Gedächtnis und Errinnerungskulturen.

Subject

• Collective memory
• Culture
• Memory > Social aspects
• Collective memory
• Memory > Social aspects
• Kollektives Gedächtnis
• Kultur
• Kollektives Gedächtnis
• POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture

Genre/Form

Literaturbericht.

Note

• Translated from the German.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 176-202) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: why 'memory'? -- The invention of cultural memory: a short history of memory studies -- The disciplines of memory studies -- Memory and culture: a semiotic model -- Media and memory -- Literature as a medium of cultural memory -- Afterword: whither memory studies?

ISBN

• 9780230297456 (alk. paper)
• 0230297455 (alk. paper)
• 9780230297449 (hbk.)
• 0230297447 (hbk.)

LCCN

^^2011016888

OCLC

• 698330413
• SCSB-12010156

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library