In this new collection of essays on memory and amnesia in the postmodern world, cultural critic Andreas Huyssen considers how nationalism, literature, art, politics, and the media are obsessed with the past. The great paradox of our fin-de-siecle culture is that novelty is even …
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As we are approaching our fin de sielce, issues of time and memory haunt contemporary culture. Musuems and memorials are being constructed rapidly, as if there were no tomorrow. Contemporary art and literature focuses on memory and the past, rather than claiming radical breakthr…
As we are approaching our fin de siecle, issues of time and memory haunt contemporary culture. Museums and memorials are being constructed rapidly, as if there were no tomorrow. Contemporary art and literature focuses on memory and the past, rather than claiming radical breakthr…
Arquivos revisitados da América lusa: escritos sobre memória e representação literária
by Cairo, Luiz Roberto, Pereira, Marcio Roberto, Azevedo, Sílvia Maria, Universidade de Évora, Simpósio Arquivos da Memória Literária e Cultural da América Lusa, Universidade de Évora), Simpósio Mundial de Estudos de Língua Portuguesa, Universidade de Évora)
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A contagious notion of trauma -- Community and poetry's maps -- Compassion across contexts : substitution, incorporation, and juxtaposition -- Accumulating suffering : waiting without end -- Signing skeletons : relational structures of the actual and artistic "Trauma theory dom…
"Trauma theory dominates contemporary ideas about ethical response to suffering. Yet, trauma theory, as it has been adopted by literary and cultural studies, has harmful effects. In With the Witnesses, Dale Tracy argues that poetry's compassionate strategies offer an alternative…
"Trauma theory dominates contemporary ideas about ethical response to suffering. Yet, trauma theory, as it has been adopted by literary and cultural studies, has harmful effects. In With the Witnesses, Dale Tracy argues that poetry's compassionate strategies offer an alternative…
"Trauma theory dominates contemporary ideas about ethical response to suffering. Yet, trauma theory, as it has been adopted by literary and cultural studies, has harmful effects. In With the Witnesses, Dale Tracy argues that poetry's compassionate strategies offer an alternative…
Theories of memory: a reader
by Whitehead, Anne, Rossington, Michael, Anderson, Linda R.
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Theories of memory: a reader
by Whitehead, Anne, Rossington, Michael, Anderson, Linda R.
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This collection provides an extensive historical and theoretical framework for the study of memory. It traces the history of the philosophical problematisation of memory as well as its insistent and urgent demand to be recognised and defined. "Theories of Memory provides a comp…
Theories of memory: a reader
by Whitehead, Anne, Rossington, Michael, Anderson, Linda R.
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Type: Book
This collection provides an extensive historical and theoretical framework for the study of memory. It traces the history of the philosophical problematisation of memory as well as its insistent and urgent demand to be recognised and defined. "Theories of Memory provides a comp…
Proposing the innovative concept of palimpsest bodies to interpret provocative theatre and performance experiments that explore issues of cultural memory, bodies of history, archives, repertoires and performing remains, Ruth Hellier-Tinoco offers an in-depth analysis of four pos…
