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Memory : Histories, Theories, Debates.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: US : Fordham University Press, 2010Copyright date: ©2010Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (573 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780823232611
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: MemoryDDC classification:
  • 128.3
LOC classification:
  • BD181.7 -- .M49 2010eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. How to Make a Composition -- 2. The Reformation of Memory in Early Modern Europe -- 3. Memory, Temporality, Modernity -- 4. Bergson on Memory -- 5. Halbwachs and the Social Properties of Memory -- 6. Memory in Freud -- 7. Proust: The Music of Memory -- 8. Siegfried Kracauer and Walter Benjamin -- 9. Adorno on the Destruction of Memory -- 10. Acts of Memory and Mourning -- 11. Deleuze and the Overcoming of Memory -- 12. Memory and the Unconscious -- 13. Memories Are Made of This -- 14. Memory and Cognition -- 15. Physiological Memory Systems -- 16. Memory-Talk -- 17. Affect and Embodiment -- 18. Telling Stories -- 19. Ritual and Memory -- 20. A Long War -- 21. Sites of Memory -- 22. Cinema and Memory -- 23. Machines of Memory -- 24. Slavery, Historicism, and the Poverty of Memoralization -- 25. Soviet Memories -- 26. The Witness in the Archive -- 27. The Long Afterlife of Loss -- 28. Migration, Food, Memory, and Home-Building -- 29. The Seventh Veil -- 30. The Gender of Memory in Post-Apartheid South Africa -- Afterword -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index.
Summary: Memory has never been closer to us, yet never more difficult to understand. In the more than thirty specially commissioned essays that make up this book, leading scholars survey the histories, the theories, and the faultlines that compose the field of memory research.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. How to Make a Composition -- 2. The Reformation of Memory in Early Modern Europe -- 3. Memory, Temporality, Modernity -- 4. Bergson on Memory -- 5. Halbwachs and the Social Properties of Memory -- 6. Memory in Freud -- 7. Proust: The Music of Memory -- 8. Siegfried Kracauer and Walter Benjamin -- 9. Adorno on the Destruction of Memory -- 10. Acts of Memory and Mourning -- 11. Deleuze and the Overcoming of Memory -- 12. Memory and the Unconscious -- 13. Memories Are Made of This -- 14. Memory and Cognition -- 15. Physiological Memory Systems -- 16. Memory-Talk -- 17. Affect and Embodiment -- 18. Telling Stories -- 19. Ritual and Memory -- 20. A Long War -- 21. Sites of Memory -- 22. Cinema and Memory -- 23. Machines of Memory -- 24. Slavery, Historicism, and the Poverty of Memoralization -- 25. Soviet Memories -- 26. The Witness in the Archive -- 27. The Long Afterlife of Loss -- 28. Migration, Food, Memory, and Home-Building -- 29. The Seventh Veil -- 30. The Gender of Memory in Post-Apartheid South Africa -- Afterword -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index.

Memory has never been closer to us, yet never more difficult to understand. In the more than thirty specially commissioned essays that make up this book, leading scholars survey the histories, the theories, and the faultlines that compose the field of memory research.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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