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This volume is a collection of scholarly articles that maps the concept of memory across a number of academic disciplines. Drawing from a range of academic areas, including Cultural Theory, Film Studies, History, History of Ideas, Literature, Media Studies, Music and Philosophy, the book will provide readers with an engaging introduction to the growing field of Memory Studies. Each of the eight articles approaches the subject of memory from the perspectives of a specific discipline with the broad aim being to identify how and why memory has been important for the particular field being represented.
List of contents
Contents: Andreas Kitzmann/Conny Mithander/John Sundholm: Introduction - Zofia Rosinska: Philosophical Psychology of Memory - Andreas Kitzmann: The Page, the Camera and the Network: Media and the Materiality of Memory - Patrik Sjöberg: A Mirror with a Memory: On the Relation between Camera-Produced Images and Memory - Maria Holmgren Troy: Memory and Literature: The Case of Pat Barker's Another World - Magnus Rodell: Monuments and the Places of Memory - Sten Dahlstedt: Then, Now and Later: On Music and Memory - Joanna Górnicka: Time and Memory in Moral Philosophy - Julia Creet: Epilogue: Manufacturing Memory.
About the author
The Editors: Andreas Kitzmann is Assistant Professor at the School of Arts and Letters of the York University, Canada.
Conny Mithander is Senior Lecturer in History of Ideas at the Karlstad University, Sweden.
John Sundholm is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the Karlstad University, Sweden.
