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Negotiations of the past intensive course, zhejiang university general outline in contrast to history, which strives for a neutral and objective stance from which to narrate the past, literature can be thought of as multifunctional when it comes to traumatic history. Astrid erll is general editor of the book series media and cultural memory with a. Pdf memory in culture download full pdf book download. It offers an overview of the history and theory of memory studies through the lens of. The photograph as externalization and trace jens ruchatz 367. In memory in culture, astrid erll contends that if we want to understand the various crises of the present, we need to consider the mental, discursive, and habitual paradigms that were formed in. A companion to cultural memory studies book, 2010 worldcat. Pdf astrid erll ansgar nunning cultural memory studies. The series focus is on different media and technologies, such as text and image, the cinema and the new digital media, on transmediality, intermediality, and remediation, as well as.
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This collection links the use of media to the larger sociocultural processes involved in collective memory making. This handbook is based on a broad understanding of cultural memory as the interplay of present and past in. Transmissions across the generations of postdictatorship uruguay, 19842004. This book questions the sociocultural dimensions of remembering. Transcultural memory emerged in or around 2010 within the field of memory studies.
Literature, film, and the mediality of cultural memory astrid brij memory and media cultures martin zierold. Memory studies and the eighteenth century davis 2019. It offers an overview of the history and theory of memory studies through the lens of sociology. An international and interdisciplinary handbook, berlin, new york 2008, s. The volume, edited by astrid erll and ansgar nunning, provides an account of research in this broad field that is at once systematic, historical, genealogical and disciplinary. Literature, film, and the mediality of cultural memory astrid erll 389. Today, the complex issue of cultural memory is remarkably interdisciplinary. Sep 28, 2011 astrid erll is professor of anglophone literatures and cultures at goetheuniversity, frankfurt am main, germany. A companion to cultural memory studies available for download and read online in other formats. This collection links the use of media to the larger sociocultural processes involved in collective memorymaking.
This handbook represents the interdisciplinary and international field of cultural memory studies for the first time in one volume. Cultural memory studies came into being at the beginning of. Relationality thus emerges as a key term for a reflexive memory culture today, a tool to overcome exclusive memory logics homer as the heritage of europe while enabling the articulation of meaningful longterm transcultural memories homer as relational heritage in europe. Memory and cultural history, in a companion to cultural memory studies, ed. An invitation to memory studies astrid erll, memory in. Literature as a medium of cultural memory springerlink. Handbook 2008, edited by german literary scholars astrid erll and ansgar nunning. An international and interdisciplinary handbook by astrid erll. An invitation to memory studies astrid erll, memory in culture, 2011. Assmann, aleida, cultural memory and western civilization. A companion to cultural memory studies by astrid erll nook. Alongside the recent cultural turn in the humanities, there has been a noticeable return to ethical considerations. Astrid erll and ann rigney literature and the production of cultural memory. Chiaradecesariandannrigney introduction beyondmethodologicalnationalism bynowthere isavastliteraturedemonstratinghowcollective memoryiscru.
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Cultural or, if you will, collective, social memory is certainly a. Memory in culture available for download and read online in other formats. The focus in particular is onmediation and remediation as two fundamental aspects of media use, and on the dynamics between them. Astrid erll from goethe university, frankfurt, on the concept of travelling memory. Introduction over the last decade, cultural memory has emerged as a useful umbrella term to describe the complex ways in which societies remember their past using a variety of media. Pdf astrid erll ansgar nunning cultural memory studies an. Astrid erll, reported that maurice halbwachs theory of collective memory implies that the most personal memory is considered as a collective phenomenon. Communicative and cultural memory heidelberg university.
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