Description
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.
Chapter
Sites of Memory and the Shadow of War
pp.:
55 – 69
Memory and the History of Mentalities
pp.:
69 – 85
The Invention of Cultural Memory
pp.:
85 – 93
Canon and Archive
pp.:
93 – 105
Communicative and Cultural Memory
pp.:
105 – 117
Generation/Generationality, Generativity, and Memory
pp.:
117 – 127
Cultural Memory: A European Perspective
pp.:
127 – 135
Maurice Halbwachs’s mémoire collective
pp.:
135 – 149
From Collective Memory to the Sociology of Mnemonic Practices and Products
pp.:
149 – 159
Memory in Post-Authoritarian Societies
pp.:
159 – 171
Memory and Politics
pp.:
171 – 181
Social Forgetting: A Systems-Theory Approach
pp.:
181 – 189
Memory and Remembrance: A Constructivist Approach
pp.:
189 – 199
Memory and Forgetting in Paul Ricoeur’s Theory ofthe Capable Self
pp.:
199 – 211
Psychology, Narrative, and Cultural Memory: Past and Present
pp.:
211 – 223
Against the Concept of Cultural Trauma
pp.:
223 – 237
Experience and Memory: Imaginary Futures in the Past
pp.:
237 – 249
A Cognitive Taxonomy of Collective Memories
pp.:
249 – 261
Language and Memory: Social and Cognitive Processes
pp.:
261 – 271
Cultural Memory and the Neurosciences
pp.:
271 – 283
Communicative Memory
pp.:
283 – 293
Mnemonic and Intertextual Aspects of Literature
pp.:
293 – 309
Cultural Memory and the Literary Canon
pp.:
309 – 319
Life-Writing, Cultural Memory, and Literary Studies
pp.:
319 – 329
The Literary Representation of Memory
pp.:
329 – 341
The Dynamics of Remembrance: Texts Between Monumentality and Morphing
pp.:
341 – 353
The Texture of Memory: Holocaust Memorials in History
pp.:
353 – 365
The Photograph as Externalization and Trace
pp.:
365 – 375
Journalism’s Memory Work
pp.:
375 – 387
Literature, Film, and the Mediality of Cultural Memory
pp.:
387 – 397
Memory and Media Cultures
pp.:
397 – 407
Backmatter
pp.:
407 – 417