Memory in culture

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Title:

Memory in culture

Author:

Erll, Astrid.

ISBN:

9780230297449

9780230297456

Personal Author:

Erll, Astrid.

Uniform Title:

Gedächtnis und Erinnerungskulturen. English

Publication Information:

Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Physical Description:

ix, 209 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series:

Palgrave Macmillan memory studies

General Note:

First published in German as: Kollektives Gedächtnis und Erinnerungskulturen. Stuttgart : Metzlersche, c2005.

Contents:

Introduction: why 'memory'? -- The invention of cultural memory: a short history of memory studies -- The disciplines of memory studies -- Memory and culture: a semiotic model -- Media and memory -- Literature as a medium of cultural memory -- Afterword: whither memory studies?

Subject Term:

Collective memory.

Memory -- Sociological aspects.

Added Author:

Young, Sara B.

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Summary

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.