Modernization and the Crisis of Memory : : John Donne to Don DeLillo / / Philipp Wolf.

• Superior document: Costerus New Series ; 139
• VerfasserIn: Wolf, Philipp
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2002.
• Year of Publication: 2002
• Language: English
• Series: Costerus New Series ; 139.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (217 pages)

Contemporary studies of memory focus either on the psychology of remembering, on its archives and media, or on the traditional ars memoriae . The general cultural framework with its social and material factors is largely neglected, despite the obvious impact on both collective and individual mnemoni...

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Modern Intellectuals, Culture and Memory
• Cultural Memory
• 1 Early Modern to Romantic: The Secularization of Memory
• 2 The Victorian Evaporation of Memory
• The Standardization of Time: Industry and Transport
• Written and Pictorial Information and Sensationalism
• Retrochic, Novelty and Reification
• Reification
• Historicism
• Representation (and the Failure of Typology)
• History and Memory as Construction
• Jewish Messianic Memory as a Utopian Alternative
• The Demise of Cyclical History and Historical Contingency
• 3 Modernism: Epiphanic Memory
• Walter Pater and T.E. Hulme
• Modernist Epiphany and Amnesia
• W.B. Yeats
• 4 Postmodernism: Memory as Paranoia and Literary Construction (Don DeLillo)
• Alienation and Narrative Countermemory
• Postmodern Culture and the Decline of Organic Memory
• The Collective Memory of Waste and the Bomb
• Individual Countermemory
• Afterword
• Works Cited
• Index.