ABSTRACT

A focus on memory has come to prominence across a wide range of disciplines. History, literature, philosophy, anthropology, and cultural studies have placed memory at the heart of their interrogations of subjectivity, narrative, time and imagination. At the same time, memory has emerged as a central theme and preoccupation in popular literature, film and television, and the emergence of memory as an academic theme cannot be separated from its prominence in the wider culture. This volume represents, explores and interrogates the current developments, engaging directly with the place of memory in culture, and with memory's meaning's and history.

part |4 pages

Part I Believing The Body

chapter |13 pages

1 The Aesthetics Of Sense-Memory

Theorising trauma through the visual arts 1

chapter |15 pages

2 Stored Virtue

Memory, the body and the evolutionary museum

part |6 pages

Part II Propping The Subject

chapter |15 pages

3 “No Endlesse Moniment”

Artificial memory and memorial artifact in early modern England

chapter |14 pages

4 Loss

Transmissions, recognitions, authorisations

part |5 pages

Part III What Memory Forgets: Models Of The Mind

chapter |18 pages

5 The Other Inside

Memory as metaphor in psychoanalysis

chapter |17 pages

6 From The Agora To The Junkyard

Social memory and psychic materialities

part |4 pages

Part IV What History Forgets: Memory And Time

chapter |17 pages

7 ‘Already The Past'

Memory and historical time

chapter |15 pages

8 Getting To The Beginning

Identification and concrete thinking in historical consciousness

part |5 pages

Part V Memory Beyond The Modern

chapter |14 pages

9 Absent-Minded Professors

Etch-a-sketching academic forgetting

chapter |16 pages

10 Given Memory

On mnemonic coercion, reproduction, and invention