Mapping memory in nineteenth-century French literature and culture / / edited by Susan Harrow and Andrew Watts.

Memory and memory studies have shaped a major site of humanities research over the last twenty years. Examined by ethnographers, archaeologists, social scientists, historians, economists, archivists, art historians, and literary scholars, the theme of memory – individual memory and memoir, collectiv...

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Superior document:Faux titre, 369
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Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
French
Series:Faux titre ; no. 369.
Physical Description:1 online resource (316 p.)
Notes:Contributions in English and French.
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Other title:Preliminary Material --
Notes on contributors --
Preface --
Introduction --
The Word on the Street: Remembering the Paris Commune in the Twenty-First Century /
Staging La Fête des fous et de l’âne in 1898: A Commemoration of the Literary Middle Ages /
La Composante populaire de l’Affaire Dreyfus, et ses effets d’oubli ultérieur /
Spectres de Madame Bovary : la transfictionnalité comme remémoration /
Napoleonic Memory and Memoir: Military Friendship and the Memoirs of Colonel Combe /
Myth-Making and Memento: L’Expédition des Portes de Fer /
La Fête nationale, espace de construction d’une mémoire nationale au XIXe siècle /
Reporting on the Nineteenth Century: Catulle Mendès, Le Mouvement poétique français de 1867 à 1900 /
Balzac’s ‘mal d’archive’? ‘Lieux de mémoire’ in Le Lys dans la vallée /
L’Ecriture du souvenir dans les ‘Journaux’ de Stendhal /
Remémorer Rabelais en France au XIXe siècle : un souvenir d’avenir? /
Souvenirs zutiques, en vers et contre tous /
Cultural History in Question: Flaubert’s La Légende de saint Julien l’hospitalier and the Genres of Collective Memory /
Memory, Vision and Meaning in La Tentation de saint Antoine: The Mechanics of a Narrative Hallucination /
Territoire de la mémoire, territoire du réel dans La Faute de l’abbé Mouret d’Emile Zola : le récit d’une transgression impossible /
Prophesying the Past: From Memory to Sacrifice in Barbey d’Aurevilly’s Un prêtre marié /
Index.
Summary:Memory and memory studies have shaped a major site of humanities research over the last twenty years. Examined by ethnographers, archaeologists, social scientists, historians, economists, archivists, art historians, and literary scholars, the theme of memory – individual memory and memoir, collective memory, official memory and oral memory, cultural memory and popular memory – has informed academic discourse and formed institutional structures. Yet, the matter of memory is, paradoxically, under-explored in studies of the ‘long nineteenth century’ in France. Mapping Memory in Nineteenth-Century French Literature and Culture focuses critical attention on that neglected century when France was struggling to negotiate the serially renewed memory of revolutionary turmoil and socio-cultural redefinition. This volume explores the spaces that the memory process claims and shapes, and it works to identify the crosscurrents that connect those spaces. It asks how memory resists – or cedes to – colonisations by authority, by official discourse, by history, and by aesthetics. It asks how memory-work coincides with or morphs into the processes of the imagination. Eschewing diachronic approaches, the contributors to this volume explore sites around which memory is concentrated or which it shapes and informs: Memory on the Street; Sites of National Memory; Metamorphoses: Memory and Literary Practice; and Memory’s Imaginary Spaces.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:1280875275
9786613716583
9401207429
ISSN:0167-9392 ;
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: edited by Susan Harrow and Andrew Watts.