The Memory of the Modern

by Matt K. Matsuda

Book Overview

Memory has a history. The Classical world ordered and valued events differently than the Medieval world; which, in turn, was replaced by "the memory" of the Renaissance. Matt Matsuda's compelling, multidisciplinary argument in The Memory of the Modern is that the understanding, value, and uses of memory changed yet again at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries, becoming distinctively "modern."

Matsuda proves...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195093658
• ISBN13: 9780195093650
• Release Date: May 1996
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.2"