A companion to cultural memory studies

Table of Contents: ASTRID ERLL: Cultural Memory Studies: An Introduction 1 I. Ueux de memoire-Sites of Memory PIM DEN BOER: Yj>ci memoriae—Ueux de memoire 19 MARIO ISNENGHI: Italian luoghi della memoria 27 JACQUES LE RIDER: Mittekuropa as a lieu de memoire 37 UDOJ. HEBEL: Sites of Memory in U.S.-American Histories and Cultures 47 JAY WINTER: Sites of Memory and the Shadow of War 61 II. Memory and Cultural History ALON CONFINO: Memory and the History of Mentalities 77 DIETRICH HARTH: The Invention of Cultural Memory 85 ALEIDA ASSMANN: Canon and Archive 97 JAN ASSMANN: Communicative and Cultural Memory 109 JURGEN REULECKE: Generation/Generationality, Generativity, and Memory 119 VITA FORTUNATI AND ELENA LAMBERTI: Cultural Memory: A European Perspective 127 III. Social, Political, and Philosophical Memory Studies JEAN-CHRISTOPHE MARCEL AND LAURENT MUCCHIELLI: Maurice Halbwachs's memoire collective 141 JEFFREY K. OLICK: From Collective Memory to the Sociology of Mnemonic Practices and Products 151 ANDREAS LANGENOHL: Memory in Post-Authoritarian Societies 163 ERIK MEYER: Memory and Politics 173 ELENA ESPOSITO: Social Forgetting: A Systems-Theory Approach 181 SIEGFRIED J. SCHMIDT: Memory and Remembrance: A Constructivist Approach 191 MAUREEN JUNKER-KENNY: Memory and Forgetting in Paul Ricceur's Theory of the Capable Self 203 IV. Psychological Memory Studies JURGEN STRAUB: Psychology, Narrative, and Cultural Memory: Past and Present 215 WULF KANSTEINER AND HARALD WEILNBOCK: Against the Concept of Cultural Trauma 229 DAVID MIDDLETON AND STEVEN D. BROWN: Experience and Memory: Imaginary Futures in the Past 241 DAVID MANIER AND WILLIAM HIRST: A Cognitive Taxonomy of Collective Memories 253 GERALD ECHTERHOFF: Language and Memory: Social and Cognitive Processes 263 HANSJ. MARKOWITSCH: Cultural Memory and the Neurosciences 275 HARALD WELZER: Communicative Memory 285 V. Literature and Cultural Memory RENATE LACHMANN: Mnemonic and Intertextual Aspects of Literature. 301 HERBERT GRABES: Cultural Memory and the Literary Canon 311 MAX SAUNDERS: Life-Writing, Cultural Memory, and Literary Studies.... 321 BIRGIT NEUMANN: The Literary Representation of Memory 333 ANN RIGNEY: The Dynamics of Remembrance: Texts Between Monumentality and Morphing 345 VI. Media and Cultural Memory JAMES E. YOUNG: The Texture of Memory: Holocaust Memorials in History 357 JENS RUCHATZ: The Photograph as Extemalization and Trace 367 BARBIE ZELIZER: Journalism's Memory Work 379 ASTRID ERLL: Literature, Film, and the Mediality of Cultural Memory.... 389 MARTIN ZIEROLD: Memory and Media Cultures 399 Index of Names 409 Index of Terms 423 Notes on Contributors 427