Inhaltsangabe
A comprehensive introduction to the rapidly expanding field of memory studies. The book presents contemporary theoretical perspectives and traces the development of ideas about memory from the classical period to the present, including chapters on collective memory, Jewish memory discourse and trauma.
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Review
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.
(Cathy Caruth, Emory University)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.
(John Frow, University of Melbourne)About the Author
Michael Rossington and Anne Whitehead are senior lecturers in English literature at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
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