"In The Art of Memory in Exile, Hana Pichova explores the themes of memory and exile in selected novels of Vladimir Nabokov and Milan Kundera. Both writers, Pichova argues, stress how personal and cultural memory serves as a creative means of overcoming the artist's and exile's …
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Nanking 1937: memory and healing
by Li, Fei Fei, Sabella, Robert, Liu, David
fromStudies of the East Asian Institute
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Type: Book
Beginning in the 1990s, the contentious ?memory wars? divided psychologists into two schools of thought: that adults? recovered memories of childhood abuse were generally true, or that they were generally not, calling theories, therapies, professional ethics, and survivor credib…
Michael Leyton's arguments about the nature of perception and cognition are fascinating, exciting, and sure to be controversial. In this investigation of the psychological relationship between shape and time, Leyton argues compellingly that shape is used by the mind to recover t…
Popular culture and the politics of memory. - The rhetoric of victimization. - The Americanization of the Holocaust. - Anne Frank: the posthumous years. - The Anne Frank we remember/the Anne Frank we forget. - Jean Améry: the anguish of the witness. - Primo Levi: the survivor as…
"In Context is Everything, Susan Engel explores how the place, company, purpose, and situation - the context of the recollection - profoundly affect the essence and experience of a memory. Blending vivid anecdotes with the startling findings of memory research, Engel examines th…
"Of all memories, those of emotionally arousing events tend to be the best remembered. Here, James L. McGaugh, who has long been at the forefront of research into the neurobiology of learning, explains why this is. Along the way he reveals exactly what we know, and what still re…
The authors have assembled contributions from the most visible and productive researchers working at the intersection of emotion and memory. The result is a sophisticated profile of our current understanding of how memory is shaped both by emotion and emotional disorder.
