A Companion to Cultural Memory Studies

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Table of Contents
• Cultural Memory Studies: An Introduction
• I. Lieux de mémoire–Sites of Memory
  • Loci memoriae–Lieux de mémoire
  • Italian luoghi della memoria
  • Mitteleuropa as a lieu de mémoire
  • Sites of Memory in U.S.-American Histories and Cultures
  • Sites of Memory and the Shadow of War
• II. Memory and Cultural History
  • Memory and the History of Mentalities
  • The Invention of Cultural Memory
  • Canon and Archive
  • Communicative and Cultural Memory
  • Generation/Generationality, Generativity, and Memory
  • Cultural Memory: A European Perspective
• III. Social, Political, and Philosophical Memory Studies
  • Maurice Halbwachs’s mémoire collective
  • From Collective Memory to the Sociology of Mnemonic Practices and Products
  • Memory in Post-Authoritarian Societies
  • Memory and Politics
  • Social Forgetting: A Systems-Theory Approach
  • Memory and Remembrance: A Constructivist Approach
  • Memory and Forgetting in Paul Ricoeur s Theory ofthe Capable Self
• IV. Psychological Memory Studies
  • Psychology, Narrative, and Cultural Memory: Past and Present
  • Against the Concept of Cultural Trauma
  • Experience and Memory: Imaginary Futures in the Past
  • A Cognitive Taxonomy of Collective Memories
  • Language and Memory: Social and Cognitive Processes
  • Cultural Memory and the Neurosciences
  • Communicative Memory
• V. Literature and Cultural Memory
  • Mnemonic and Intertextual Aspects of Literature
  • Cultural Memory and the Literary Canon
  • Life-Writing, Cultural Memory, and Literary Studies
  • The Literary Representation of Memory
  • The Dynamics of Remembrance: Texts Between Monumentality and Morphing
• VI. Media and Cultural Memory
  • The Texture of Memory: Holocaust Memorials in History
  • The Photograph as Externalization and Trace
  • Journalism’s Memory Work
  • Literature, Film, and the Mediality of Cultural Memory
  • Memory and Media Cultures
• Backmatter