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Theories of Memory

A Reader

edited by Michael Rossington and Anne Whitehead

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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...

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.

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This collection provides an extensive historical and theoretical framework for the study of memory. It traces the exciting history of the philosophical problematisation of memory as well as its insistent and urgent demand to be recognized and defined.

This reader does a superb job in defining and presenting some of the most interesting work currently being done on the forms and the uses of personal and historical memory.

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Available
Trim Size
6.75
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9.5
Pages
328
ISBN
9780801887291
Illustration Description
4 halftones
Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
Introduction
Part I: Beginnings
1. Classical and Early Modern Ideas of Memory
2. Enlightenment and Romantic Memory
3. Memory and Late Modernity
Part II

Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
Introduction
Part I: Beginnings
1. Classical and Early Modern Ideas of Memory
2. Enlightenment and Romantic Memory
3. Memory and Late Modernity
Part II: Positionings
4. Collective Memory
5. Jewish Memory Discourse
6. Trauma
Part III: Identities
7. Gender
8. Race/Nation
9. Disapora
Biographical Details of Editors and Contributing Editors
Index

Author Bios
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Michael Rossington

Michael Rossington is a senior lecturer in English literature at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
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Anne Whitehead

Anne Whitehead is a senior lecturerer in English literature at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.