A Companion to Cultural Memory Studies

This companion represents the interdisciplinary and international field of a oecultural memory studiesa in one volume. Articles by renowned international scholars offer readers a unique overview of the key concepts of cultural memory studies. The book 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: An Introduction	p. 1
Lieux de mémoire-Sites of Memory
Loci memoriae-Lieux de mémoire	p. 19
Italian luoghi della memoria	p. 27
Mitteleuropa as a lieu de mémoire	p. 37
Sites of Memory in U.S.-American Histories and Cultures	p. 47
Sites of Memory and the Shadow of War	p. 61
Memory and Cultural History
Memory and the History of Mentalities	p. 77
The Invention of Cultural Memory	p. 85
Canon and Archive	p. 97
Communicative and Cultural Memory	p. 109
Generation/Generationality, Generativity, and Memory	p. 119
Cultural Memory: A European Perspective	p. 127
Social, Political, and Philosophical Memory Studies
Maurice Halbwachs's mémoire collective	p. 141
From Collective Memory to the Sociology of Mnemonic Practices and Products	p. 151
Memory in Post-Authoritarian Societies	p. 163
Memory and Politics	p. 173
Social Forgetting; A Systems-Theory Approach	p. 181
Memory and Remembrance: A Constructivist Approach	p. 191
Memory and Forgetting in Paul Ricæur's Theory of the Capable Self	p. 203
Psychological Memory Studies
Psychology, Narrative, and Cultural Memory: Past and Present	p. 215
Against the Concept of Cultural Trauma	p. 229
Experience and Memory: Imaginary Futures in the Past	p. 241
A Cognitive Taxonomy of Collective Memories	p. 253
Language and Memory: Social and Cognitive Processes	p. 263
Cultural Memory and the Neurosciences	p. 275
Communicative Memory	p. 285
Literature and Cultural Memory
Mnemonic and Intertextual Aspects of Literature	p. 301
Cultural Memory and the Literary Canon	p. 311
Life-Writing, Cultural Memory, and Literary Studies	p. 321
The Literary Representation of Memory	p. 333
The Dynamics of Remembrance: Texts between Monumentality and Morphing	p. 345
Media and Cultural Memory
The Texture of Memory: Holocaust Memorials in History	p. 357
The Photograph as Externalization and Trace	p. 367
Journalism's Memory Work	p. 379
Literature, Film, and the Mediality of Cultural Memory	p. 389
Memory and Media Cultures	p. 399
Index of Names	p. 409
Index of Terms	p. 423
Notes on Contributors	p. 427
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