the ashgate research companion to memory studies
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The Ashgate Research Companion to Memory Studies
Edited by
SIOBHAN KATTAGO
Tallinn University, Estonia
ASH GATE
Contents
List of Figures List of Tables Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements
Introduction: Memory Studies and its Companions Siobhan Kattago
PART I: MEMORY, HISTORY AND TIME
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History as an Art of Memory Revisited Patrick H. Hutton
Chateaubriand, Selfhood and Memory Peter Fritzsche
Dialectical Memory: The Intersection of Individual and Collective Memory in Hegel Angelica Nuzzo
Spectral Phenomenology: Derrida, Heidegger and the Problem of the Ancestral Hans Ruin
PART II: SOCIAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL AND CULTURAL FRAMEWORKS OF MEMORY
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5 Continuity and Innovation in the Art of Memory 75 Luisa Passerini
6 From Collectivity to Collectiveness: Reflections (with Halbwachs and Bakhtin) on the Concept of Collective Memory 89 Alexandre Dessingue
7 A Unified Approach to Collective Memory: Sociology, Psychology and the Extended Mind 103 William Hirst and Charles B. Stone
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Mannheim and the Sociological Problem of Generations: Events as Inspiration and Constraint Vered Vinitzky-Seroussi
Semiotic Theory of Cultural Memory: In the Company of Juri Lotman Marek Tamm
PART III: ACTS AND PLACES OF MEMORY
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Travel Companions Mieke Bal
'Forked no Lightning': Remembering and Forgetting in the Shadow of Big Ben Stuart Burch
Written in Stone: Monuments and Representation Siobhan Kattago
Theories of Memory and the Imaginative Force of Fiction Julie Hansen
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PART IV: POLITICS OF MEMORY, FORGETTING AND DEMOCRACY
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Memory and Methodological Cosmopolitanism: A Figurative Approach Daniel Levy
Hannah Arendt and Thomas Paine: Companions in Remembering, Forgetting and Beginning Again Bradford Vivian
Interactions between History and Memory: Historical Truth Commissions and Reconciliation Eva-Clarita Pettai
Post-Stalinist Russia: Memory and Mourning Alexander Etkind
Afterword Jeffrey K. Olick
Index
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List of Figures
Giulio Camillo' s 'Memory Theatre' (1582) 83 Giordano Bruno's 'Wheel of Memory' (1544) 84
Mieke Bal, Nothing is Missing, multi-channel video installation 147 Mieke Bal & Michelle Williams Gamaker, Saying It (Freud Museum, London, 2012) 148 Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Where is Where? (2008). HD installation for 6 projections with sound. Final image of middle part, Adel's last sentence 150 Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Where Is Where? (2008). HD installation for 6 projections with sound. The Priest ('Guardian Angel') leads the boys through the queuing ropes 152 Doris Salcedo, Plegaria muda, installation (2011) 155 Doris Salcedo, Plegaria muda, installation (2011). Detail 156
Big Ben 3D Puzzle 166 William Wordsworth, 'Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey' (1798), Lyrical Ballads, vol. 1, 4th edn 169 Brian Haw in Parliament Square (7 July 2007) 171 Text Fragment 175
Soviet monuments behind the Estonian History Museum (2013) 181 Head of Lenin, Estonian History Museum (2013) 182 Neue Wache Memorial 186 Bronze Soldier 188 Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe 189
List of Tables
6.1 Uses of the collective memory concept 6.2 Collective memory as a polysemic concept
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