"The advent of the new age has alerted us to the conflicted nature of historical memory which defined the 20th century while simultaneously assaulting us with new historical upheavals that demand responsibility and critical consideration. As the historical text bears traces of t…
Although the end of the Cold War was greeted with great enthusiasm by people in the East and the West, the ensuing social and especially economic changes did not always result in the hoped-for improvements in peoples lives. This led to widespread disillusionment that can be obse…
"These lively essays make for the rare collection that is greater than the sum of its parts. Bookended by a substantive Foreword and Afterword, they upend the standard ̀diagnosis of nostalgia' found across the former Soviet bloc, refuting the popular conception that Eastern Europ…
We live in a pop age gone loco for retro and crazy for commemoration. But what happens when we run out of past? Are we heading toward a sort of cultural-ecological catastrophe, where the archival stream of pop history has been exhausted? Simon Reynolds argues that we have indeed…
Introduction -- Memory as cultural transmission. Calvino, Eco and the transmission of world literature / Martin McLaughlin -- Montale's Xenia: between myth and poetic tradition / Adele Bardazzi -- Repressed memory and traumatic history in Alberto Moravia's The woman of Rome / Ch…
Despite 21st-century fears of an 'epidemic' of loneliness, its history has been neglected. This is the first history of its kind to be published in English, offering a radically new interpretation of loneliness as an emotional language and experience. Using letters and diaries, …
Despite 21st-century fears of a modern 'epidemic' of loneliness, its history has been sorely neglected.' A Biography of Loneliness' is the first history of its kind to be published in English, offering a radically new interpretation of loneliness as an emotional language and exp…
Combining personal memoir, philosophical essay, and historical analysis, Svetlana Boym explores the spaces of collective nostalgia that connect national biography and personal self-fashioning in the 21st century.
"Why is it that the age of globalization is accompanied by a no less global epidemic of nostalgia? What happens to Old World memories in a New World order? Do we even know what we are nostalgic for?" "Combining philosophical essay, aesthetic analysis and personal memoir, Boym ex…
"Why is it that the age of globalization is accompanied by a no less global epidemic of nostalgia? What happens to Old World memories in a New World order? Do we even know what we are nostalgic for?" "Combining philosophical essay, aesthetic analysis and personal memoir, Boym ex…
