Genres As Repositories Of Cultural Memory

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004488878

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Genres as Repositories of Cultural Memory by Anonim Pdf

This volume deals with the inherent relation between literary genres and cultural memory. Indeed, generic repertoires may be regarded as bodies of shared knowledge (a sort of ‘encyclopaedia' or 'museum' of stocked culture) and have played and still play an important role in absorbing and activating that memory. The contributors have focused on some specific memory-linked genres that prove especially relevant in remembering and transforming past experiences, i.e. the (post)modern historical novel and various forms of (post)modern autobiographical writing. They deal with such renowned authors as Carlos Fuentes, Vargas Llosa, Umberto Eco, Antonio Tabucchi, John Barth, Julian Barnes, Michel Butor, Nathalie Sarraute, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Claude Simon, Georges Perec and Marguerite Yourcenar. The volume, thus, constitutes an attractive and representative sample of (post)modern forms of rewriting and problematizing individual and collective pasts.

Author : Herbert Grabes
Publisher : Gunter Narr Verlag
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3823341758

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Literature, Literary History, and Cultural Memory by Herbert Grabes Pdf

Author : Massimiliano Bampi,Carolyne Larrington,Sif Rikhardsdottir
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Literary form
ISBN : 9781843845645

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A Critical Companion to Old Norse Literary Genre by Massimiliano Bampi,Carolyne Larrington,Sif Rikhardsdottir Pdf

A comprehensive guide to a crucial aspect of Old Norse literature.

Author : Martin T. Dinter,Charles Guérin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009327794

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Cultural Memory in Republican and Augustan Rome by Martin T. Dinter,Charles Guérin Pdf

Cultural memory is a framework which elucidates the relationship between the past and the present: essentially, why, how, and with what results certain pieces of information are remembered. This volume brings together distinguished classicists from a variety of sub-disciplines to explore cultural memory in the Roman Republic and the Age of Augustus. It provides an excellent and accessible starting point for readers who are new to the intersection between cultural memory theory and ancient Rome, whilst also appealing to the seasoned scholar. The chapters delve deep into memory theory, going beyond the canonical texts of Jan Assmann and Pierre Nora and pushing their terminology towards Basu's dispositifs, Roller's intersignifications, Langlands' sites of exemplarity, and Erll's horizons. This innovative framework enables a fresh analysis of both fragmentary texts and archaeological phenomena not discussed elsewhere.

Author : L. Steveker
Publisher : Springer
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230248595

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Identity and Cultural Memory in the Fiction of A. S. Byatt by L. Steveker Pdf

This book provides innovative readings of the key texts of A.S. Byatt's oeuvre by analysing the negotiations of individual identity, cultural memory, and literature which inform Byatt's novels. Steveker explores the concepts of identity constructed in the novels, showing them to be deeply rooted in British literary history and cultural memory.

Author : Ina Bergmann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000295627

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The Nineteenth Century Revis(it)ed by Ina Bergmann Pdf

The Nineteenth Century Revis(it)ed: The New Historical Fiction explores the renaissance of the American historical novel at the turn of the twenty-first century. The study examines the revision of nineteenth-century historical events in cultural products against the background of recent theoretical trends in American studies. It combines insights of literary studies with scholarship on popular culture. The focus of representation is the long nineteenth century – a period from the early republic to World War I – as a key epoch of the nation-building project of the United States. The study explores the constructedness of historical tradition and the cultural resonance of historical events within the discourse on the contemporary novel and the theory formation surrounding it. At the center of the discussion are the unprecedented literary output and critical as well as popular success of historical fiction in the USA since 1995. An additional postcolonial and transatlantic perspective is provided by the incorporation of texts by British and Australian authors and especially by the inclusion of insights from neo-Victorian studies. The book provides a critical comment on current and topical developments in American literature, culture, and historiography.

Author : Frederik Tygstrup,Ulrik Ekman
Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Atrocities in literature
ISBN : 9788763504256

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Witness by Frederik Tygstrup,Ulrik Ekman Pdf

Witness is an anthology comprising 40 critical essays from an international cast of researchers who engage with a complex set of questions concerning notions of witnessing and attestation in 20th- and 21st-century Western culture. The contributors provide insightful perspectives on the subject of witnessing and suggest how this vital yet relatively unexplored concept lends itself to a wide range of media and subject areas. The essays critically reconsider existing scholarly tendencies which focus on historical evidence and the witness' vocalization of true remembrance. They do this by establishing important links with canonical texts, images, and voices within a theoretical and interpretive framework where questions of mediation, memorization, and representation are addressed.

Author : Reginald Elias Kirey
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2023-08-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9783111055619

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Memories of German Colonialism in Tanzania by Reginald Elias Kirey Pdf

German colonial history in today Tanzania Mainlad is extensively documented, but it has not been studied from its memory perspective despite it being widely remembered among the Tanzanians. This book documents German colonial memories as shared cultural legacy that exists in forms of monuments, archives and historical sites. It also presents them as trans-generational memory narratives that live in people's memories that are also commemorated in different ways like erection of war monuments. The book analyzes memories of colonialism from the historical perspective, showing how the collective memories like monuments and commemorations have undergone structural and institutional changes over time. The study uses Michael Rothberg's multi-directional theory, together with other theoretical approaches to analyze various forms of German colonial memories in Tanzanian context. The findings, which are analyzed historically, indicate that the collective memories of the Germans are cultural, communicative, commemorative, functional and topographical. They are also traumatic as well as nostalgic.

Author : A. Erll
Publisher : Springer
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230321670

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Memory in Culture by A. Erll Pdf

This book questions the sociocultural dimensions of remembering. It offers an overview of the history and theory of memory studies through the lens of sociology, political science, anthropology, psychology, literature, art and media studies; documenting current international and interdisciplinary memory research in an unprecedented way.

Author : Annette Weissenrieder,Robert B. Coote
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498237420

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The Interface of Orality and Writing by Annette Weissenrieder,Robert B. Coote Pdf

How did the visual, the oral, and the written interrelate in antiquity? The essays in this collection address the competing and complementary roles of visual media, forms of memory, oral performance, and literacy and popular culture in the ancient Mediterranean world. Incorporating both customary and innovative perspectives, the essays advance the frontiers of our understanding of the nature of ancient texts as regards audibility and performance, the vital importance of the visual in the comprehension of texts, and basic concepts of communication, particularly the need to account for disjunctive and non-reciprocal social relations in communication. Thus the contributions show how the investigation of the interface of the oral and written, across the spectrum of seeing, hearing, and writing, generates new concepts of media and mediation.

Author : Lisa Block de Behar,Paola Mildonian,Jean-Michel Djian,Djelal Kadir,Alfons Knauth,Dolores Romero Lopez and Marcio Seligmann Silva
Publisher : EOLSS Publications
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781848263956

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Comparative Literature: Sharing Knowledges for Preserving Cultural Diversity - Volume III by Lisa Block de Behar,Paola Mildonian,Jean-Michel Djian,Djelal Kadir,Alfons Knauth,Dolores Romero Lopez and Marcio Seligmann Silva Pdf

Comparative Literature: Sharing Knowledges for Preserving Cultural Diversity theme is a component of Encyclopedia of Social Sciences and Humanities in the global Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), which is an integrated compendium of twenty one Encyclopedias. The Theme on Comparative Literature: Sharing Knowledge's for Preserving Cultural Diversity provides six different topics: 1. Language, literature and human sustainability; 2. Relationships among literature and other artistic activities and discourses ; 3. Comparative literature and other fields of knowledge; 4. Comparative literature, criticism and media ; 5. Comparative literature in the age of global change; 6. Translatio studii and cross-cultural movements or Weltverkehr. These three volumes are aimed at a wide spectrum of audiences: University and College Students, Educators and Research Personnel.

Author : Myriam Salama-Carr
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9042014512

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On Translating French Literature and Film by Myriam Salama-Carr Pdf

Author : Ansgar Nünning,Marion Gymnich,Roy Sommer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Collective memory and literature
ISBN : UOM:39015066829063

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Literature and Memory by Ansgar Nünning,Marion Gymnich,Roy Sommer Pdf

Author : Boris Maslov
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107116634

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Pindar and the Emergence of Literature by Boris Maslov Pdf

For much of Western history, Pindar's work was recognized as the pinnacle of lyric poetry. This book presents an introduction to different aspects of Pindar's art, while demonstrating its importance for the coming into being of literature as it has been conceived of in the West.

Author : Claire Boyle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351195294

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Consuming Autobiographies by Claire Boyle Pdf

"Since 1975, French literary writing has been marked by an autobiographical turn which has seen authors increasingly often tap into the vein of what the French term ecriture de soi. This coincides, paradoxically, with the 'death of autobiography', as these authors self-consciously distance themselves and their writings from conventional autobiography, founding a 'nouvelle autobiographie' where the very possibility of autobiographical expression is questioned. In the first book-length study in English to address this phenomenon, Claire Boyle sheds a new light on this hostility toward autobiography through a series of ground-breaking studies of estrangement in autobiographical works by major post-war authors Nathalie Sarraute, Georges Perec, Jean Genet and Helene Cixous. She identifies autobiography as a site of conflict between writer and reader, as authors struggle to assert the unknowableness of their identity in the face of a readership resolutely desiring privileged knowledge. Autobiography emerges as a deeply troubling genre for authors, with the reader as an antagonistic consumer of the autobiographical self."