Cultural memory : essays on European literature and history / Edric Caldicott & Anne Fuchs, (eds.)

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Caldicott, C. E. J.

Fuchs, Anne

Classes of 1883 and 1884 Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

European literature--20th century--History and criticism.

European literature.

Memory--Social aspects--Europe.

Memory.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in literature.

Memory--Social aspects.

Europe.

Physical Description:

422 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford; New York : P. Lang, [2003]

Contents:

Part 1 Memory as Counter-History 33

Historiography and the Critique of Culture in Schiller, Nietzsche and Benjamin / Jeanne Riou 35

Communal Memory as a Response to Crisis: The Community of Port-Royal, 1661-1711 / Carol Baxter 53

A Sceptic Witness: Voltaire's Vision of Historiography / Siofra Pierse 69

Authenticity, Truth and the Other in B. Wilkormirski's Bruchstucke and W. G. Sebald's Die Ausgewanderten / Angela Reinicke 85

Deconstructing Marxist-Leninist Historiography: Memories of National Socialism in East German Poetry / Sabine Egger 99

Part 2 Narrative and Remembering 115

Creating Memories in the Search for Identity: The Holocaust Fiction of Jurek Becker / David Rock 117

The Meta-Theatricalization of Memory in Brian Friel's Dancing at Lughnasa / Eamonn Jordan 129

Exposing the Gaps in Memory: Forgetting and Remembering in Monika Maron's Pawels Briefe / Deirdre Byrnes 147

Figuring the Past: Cultural Memory in Pierre Michon's Vies minuscules / Patrick Crowley 161

Part 3 Locating Memory 173

Without Walls: 'World Art' and Malraux's Imaginary Museum / Douglas Smith 175

Mapping the 'Year of the French': The Vernacular Landscape of Folk Memory / Guy Beiner 191

'Nachleben': Cultural Memory in Aby Warburg and Walter Benjamin / Christian J. Emden 209

Aughrim, Flanders, Ladysmith and Other Sites of Memory in Beckett's Mercier et Camier / Phyllis Gaffney 225

Haunting the Self: Herbert Achternbusch's Ella / Gillian Pye 241

Part 4 Remembering and Renewal 259

Anniversaries: Republican Collectivization of Memory, from Moliere to Dreyfus / Edric Caldicott 261

Deformity and Dualism: Arrigo Boito and the Crisis of Italian Romanticism / Deirdre O'Grady 277

Translation as Re-Membering / Susan Bassnett 293

Common Culture and Creativity: Forgetting and Remembering in the Cultural Theory of Michel de Certeau / Patrick O'Donovan 311

Purloined Letters: Juan Goytisolo, Jose Maria Blanco White, and the Cultural Construction of Marginal Identity / Alison Ribeiro De Menezes 327

Part 5 Remembering as Trauma 341

Rewriting Memory: The Great War in Celine's Voyage au bout de la nuit / Tom Quinn 343

Contested Memories: Autobiographical Challenges to the Collective Memory of the Shoah / Carmel Finnan 361

History and Remembering in the Post-Franco Theatre of Antonio Buero Vallejo / Catherine O'Leary 377

Remembering Betrayal: The Roman Ghetto's Pantera Nera in Elena Gianini Belotti and Giuseppe Pederiali / Silvia Ross 391.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Classes of 1883 and 1884 Fund.

ISBN:

0820462942

303910053X

OCLC:

53007021