Theories of Memory

by Rossington, Michael; Whitehead, Anne; Anderson, Linda (CON); Chedgzoy, Kate (CON); Mukherjee, Pablo (CON)

• ISBN13: 9780801887291
• ISBN10: 0801887291
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-05-09
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr

Summary

Theories of Memory provides a comprehensive introduction to the rapidly expanding field of memory studies. It is a resource through which students of literature will be able both to broaden their knowledge of contemporary theoretical perspectives and to trace the development of ideas about memory from the classical period to the present.The reader is organized into three parts:Part I, Beginnings, is historical in scope. Its three sections, Classical and Early Modern Ideas of Memory, Enlightenment and Romantic Memory, and Memory and Late Modernity, lay out key psychological, rhetorical, and cultural concepts of memory in the work of a range of thinkers from Plato to Walter Benjamin.Part II, Positionings, identifies three major perspectives through which memory has been defined and debated more recently: Collective Memory, Jewish Memory Discourse, and Trauma.Part III, Identities, examines the key role of memory in contemporary constructions of identity under the headings of Gender, Race/Nation, and Diaspora.

Author Biography

Michael Rossington and Anne Whitehead are senior lecturers in English literature at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

Table of Contents

Classical and early modern ideas of memory	p. 19
from Theaetetus and Phaedrus	p. 25
De Memoria et Reminiscentia	p. 28
from On the ideal orator (De oratore)	p. 39
from Ad Herennium	p. 43
from The book of memory : a study in medieval culture	p. 50
from The art of memory	p. 59
Enlightenment and Romantic memory	p. 69
from An essay concerning human understanding	p. 75
from A treatise of human nature	p. 80
from Philosophy of mind, being part three of the encyclopaedia of the philosophical sciences	p. 85
Memory and late modernity	p. 91
from The eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte	p. 97
from On the uses and disadvantages of history for life	p. 102
from Matter and memory	p. 109
A note upon the 'mystic writing-pad'	p. 114
On the image of Proust	p. 119
Collective memory	p. 133
from The collective memory	p. 139
from Between memory and history : Les Lieux de Memoire	p. 144
from Toute la memoire du monde : repetition and forgetting	p. 150
Jewish memory discourse	p. 157
from Zakhor : Jewish history and Jewish memory	p. 165
from From a ruined garden : the memorial books of Polish Jewry	p. 172
from The texture of memory : Holocaust memorials and meaning	p. 177
Trauma	p. 185
from Memory's time : chronology and duration in Holocaust testimonies	p. 192
from Trauma and experience	p. 199
from History in transit : experience, identity, critical theory	p. 206
Gender	p. 215
from The social inheritance of the Holocaust : gender, culture and memory	p. 219
from Feminism and cultural memory : an introduction	p. 223
from Family secrets : acts of memory and imagination	p. 230
Race/nation	p. 237
from Imagined communities : reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism	p. 242
from The nation form : history and ideology	p. 253
from There ain't no black in the Union Jack	p. 262
Diaspora	p. 271
from In/different spaces : place and memory in visual culture	p. 276
from Cartographies of diaspora : contesting identities	p. 286
from Out of place	p. 290
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