Literature and Cultural Memory

By Mihaela Irimia

Cultural Memory, a subtle and comprehensive process of identity formation, promotion and transmission, is considered as a set of symbolic practices and protocols, with particular emphasis on repositories of memory and the institutionalized forms in which they are embodied. High and low culture as texts embedded in the texture of memory, as well as material culture as a communal receptacle and reservoir of memory are analysed in their historical contingency. Symbolic representations of accepted and counter history/ies, and the cultural nodes and mechanisms of the cultural imaginary are also issues of central interest. Twenty-six contributions tackle these topics from a theoretical and historical perspective and bring to the fore case studies illustrating the interdisciplinary agenda that underlies the volume.

Contributors: Luis Manuel A.V. Bernardo, Lina Bolzoni, Peter Burke, Pia Brinzeu, Adina Ciugureanu, Thomas Docherty, Christoph Ehland, Herbert Grabes, L szl Gyapay, Donna Landry, Christoph Lehner, Gerald MacLean, Dragoş Manea, Daniel Melo, Miroslawa Modrzewska, Rareş Moldovan, C.W.R.D. Mosely, Petruţa Năiduţ, Francesca Orestano, Maria L cia G. Pallares-Burke, Andreea Paris, Leonor Santa B rbara, Hans-Peter S der, Jukka Tiusanen, Ludmila Voln , Ioana Zirra.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004338861
• ISBN13: 9789004338869
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 412 Pages
• Weight: 1.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.3"