Erll / Nünning Cultural Memory Studies

An International and Interdisciplinary Handbook
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-3-11-020726-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

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 one 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 mémoire collective. 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 lieux de mémoire such as 9/11.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Erll, Astrid

Nünning, Ansgar

Weitere Mitwirkende

Young, Sara

Fachgebiete

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

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.