Cultural Memory Studies: An International and Interdisciplinary Handbook

Published by De Gruyter 2010

Cultural Memory Studies

An International and Interdisciplinary Handbook

Edited by: Astrid Erll and Ansgar Nünning
In collaboration with: Sara B. Young

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110207262

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Astrid Erll, University of Wuppertal, Germany; Ansgar Nünning, Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen; Sara B. Young, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.

Reviews

"All said, this handbook is highly recommended, providing as it does an illustrative overview of both the opportunities and difficulties inherent in such a multidisciplinary, internationally populated field."
Daniel Mai in: KULT_online 22/2010

"Mit seiner internationalen Bilanz weist dieser Band auf jeden Fall nach, dass das kulturelle Gedächtnis eines jener „Konvergenzfelder" ist, auf dem der interdisziplinäre Austausch ebenso anregend wie weiterführend sein kann."
Malte Thießen in: http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/rezensionen/2009-1-061

"Die konzise und prägnant gehaltenen Beiträge des Handbuches spiegeln den aktuellen Forschungsstand, regen mit ihren Literaturhinweisen zur weiteren Beschäftigung und Auseinandersetzung mit Fragen der Forschung zum kulturellen Gedächtnis an. [...]Das kollektive Gedächtnis und seine Wirkungsweisen sind zu Recht ein bevorzugtes Arbeitsgebiet einer modernen Kulturwissenschaft, wie das vorliegende Handbuch trefflich zeigt."
Till Kinzel in: Informationsmittel (IFB) 1-2/2008

Topics

Frontmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	i
Table of Contents Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
Cultural Memory Studies: An Introduction Astrid Erll Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
I. Lieux de mémoire–Sites of Memory
Loci memoriae–Lieux de mémoire Pim Boer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
Italian luoghi della memoria Mario Isnenghi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
Mitteleuropa as a lieu de mémoire Jacques Rider Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
Sites of Memory in U.S.-American Histories and Cultures Udo J. Hebel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
Sites of Memory and the Shadow of War Jay Winter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
II. Memory and Cultural History
Memory and the History of Mentalities Alon Confino Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
The Invention of Cultural Memory Dietrich Harth Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
Canon and Archive Aleida Assmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
Communicative and Cultural Memory Jan Assmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
Generation/Generationality, Generativity, and Memory Jürgen Reulecke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
Cultural Memory: A European Perspective Vita Fortunati and Elena Lamberti Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
III. Social, Political, and Philosophical Memory Studies
Maurice Halbwachs’s mémoire collective Jean-Christophe Marcel and Laurent Mucchielli Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
From Collective Memory to the Sociology of Mnemonic Practices and Products Jeffrey K. Olick Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
Memory in Post-Authoritarian Societies Andreas Langenohl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
Memory and Politics Erik Meyer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
Social Forgetting: A Systems-Theory Approach Elena Esposito Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
Memory and Remembrance: A Constructivist Approach Siegfried J. Schmidt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
Memory and Forgetting in Paul Ricoeur s Theory ofthe Capable Self Maureen Junker-Kenny Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
IV. Psychological Memory Studies
Psychology, Narrative, and Cultural Memory: Past and Present Jürgen Straub Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
Against the Concept of Cultural Trauma Wulf Kansteiner and Harald Weilnböck Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
Experience and Memory: Imaginary Futures in the Past David Middleton and Steven D. Brown Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
A Cognitive Taxonomy of Collective Memories David Manier and William Hirst Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253
Language and Memory: Social and Cognitive Processes Gerald Echterhoff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263
Cultural Memory and the Neurosciences Hans J. Markowitsch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	275
Communicative Memory Harald Welzer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	285
V. Literature and Cultural Memory
Mnemonic and Intertextual Aspects of Literature Renate Lachmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	301
Cultural Memory and the Literary Canon Herbert Grabes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	311
Life-Writing, Cultural Memory, and Literary Studies Max Saunders Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	321
The Literary Representation of Memory Birgit Neumann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	333
The Dynamics of Remembrance: Texts Between Monumentality and Morphing Ann Rigney Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	345
VI. Media and Cultural Memory
The Texture of Memory: Holocaust Memorials in History James E. Young Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	357
The Photograph as Externalization and Trace Jens Ruchatz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	367
Journalism’s Memory Work Barbie Zelizer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	379
Literature, Film, and the Mediality of Cultural Memory Astrid Erll Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	389
Memory and Media Cultures Martin Zierold Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	399
Backmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	409

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Academics, Libraries, Institutes
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 441
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 1
Keywords: Cultural Memory; Collective Memory

eBook

Published: August 27, 2008
ISBN: 9783110207262

Paperback

Published: May 27, 2010
ISBN: 9783110229981