Top Research Papers on Memory Studies in Literature

METHODS AND FRAMEWORKS FOR THE STUDY OF CULTURAL MEMORY AND LITERATURE. K. DE WET: Dialogues Generated by Pivotal Figures in Literary Systems: A Systemic Approach to the Study of Literature. B. KEUNEN: Cultural Thematics and Cultural Memory: Towards a Socio-cultural Approach to Literary Themes. C. LEITERITZ: Histoire des concepts. Methode d'investigation de la litterature comme memoire culturelle. J. PIETERS: Literature and the Anamnesis of History. M. GRABAR: The Hermeneutics of Propaganda: The Violent Silencing of Reason in Literary and Scientific Hermeneutics. N.A. ANDERSON: The Identificat...

Trauma is a modern topic.With physical and psychological traumas after wars and holocausts,modern literature meditates on the connection between trauma and consciousness,trauma and identity,or existence,and also represents the disturbed psychology of traumatic characters.Trauma results in a rupture on the shelter of consciousness and on the symbolic system.It repetitiously and literally invades the victims with nightmares and flashbacks,and causes them experience pain,loss,and even death again.Traumatic features like belatedness,latency,timelessness and repetition decide that trauma is a lonel...

Memory is always problematic, usually deceptive, sometimes treach erous. Proust knew this and the English reader is deprived of the full force of his title which conveys, not the blandly reassuring Remembrance of Things Past of the Moncrieff translation, but an ini tially darker and more anxious search for a time that has been lost. In the ensorcelled film of Alain Resnais the heroine quickly dis covers that she cannot even be certain of what transpired last year at Marienbad. We ourselves are periodically aware that memory is among the most fragile and capricious of our faculties.

The memory writing in literature is involved in the formation of the literary text narration pattern and the production and presentation of the writer's life experience. In the writing of literary memory,"time"has become the basic element of memory type classification and text recognition. Because of the memory of the memory of the"episodic memory"of the preference,the "memory of the memory"and"memory of how to remember"the structure is more clear. In addition,with the emphasis on the non-literary memory,the social and cultural functions are different,and the literary memory needs the structur...

Literary studies and memory studies have in common that the main objects of their interest, literature and memory, may be broken down into heuristic triads: author/text/reader and encoding/storing/retrieval, respectively. The two triads may be compared historically and even blended metaphorically, the latter being a procedure present in most human discourses, including science (see Turner 2002; Lakoff and Johnson 2003). The metaphorical blend of memory with literature, where memorizing is the source domain and writing is the target domain, has been indirectly present in Western thought since P...

El articulo supone una aproximacion al fenomeno universal de la literatura concentracionaria. A partir del analisis de textos escritos por supervivientes de los campos nazis, el Gulag o los campos de internamiento franceses, se intentan esbozar las principales caracteristicas tematicas, formales y pragmaticas de este tipo de escritura. This paper examines the universal phenomenon of concentration camp literature. The article departs from texts written by individuals who survived Nazi concentration camps, the Soviet Gulag, or French internment camps, with the aim of reflecting upon the formal, ...

Memory, Intermediality, and Literature investigates how selected literary works use intermedial strategies to represent and perform cultural memory. Drawing on the theoretical perspectives of cultural memory studies, this engaging, reader-friendly monograph examines new materialism and intermediality studies, analyzying works by Alexander Kluge, W.G. Sebald, Jonathan Safran Foer, Anne Carson, Mette Hegnhoj, William Joyce, J.J. Abrams and Doug Dorst. The works emerge out of different traditions and genres, ranging from neo-avant-garde montages through photo-novels and book objects to apps and c...

Regression analysis showed that overall recall accuracy was increased by identifying with the characters in the stories and for passages that were found pleasing and personally meaningful, and implicit learning involving odours and literary passages is fostered by unity in the reading experience.

Cultural Memory, a subtle and comprehensive process of identity formation, promotion and transmission, is considered as a set of symbolic practices and protocols, with particular emphasis on repositories of memory and the institutionalized forms in which they are embodied.

More often than not, memory is taken to be the storehouse of past experiences situated in a local context. However, recent theories have moved the focus to the process of memory which, in any present moment, allows the past, collective or individual, to emerge as a construction that works as a strong driving force of identity formation. In this perspective the memory process selects features of the past and turns them into more or less coherent structures, which then will have to be checked out with others in order for them to exercise their role as valid interpretations of the past and buildi...

A study of Bernhard Schlink's controversial novel The Reader (1997) and Paul Celan's 'todesfuge'(1948) as an exploration of the ambivalence of recalling memories of collective trauma and mourning within the context of modern german nation-building.

IT is my purpose this morning to enter a plea for the reintroduction of a method of English training that has of late years fallen into neglect and even into discredit. In my boyhood days, as doubtless in yours, it was the custom in preparatory schools to have the pupils commit to memory selections of prose and verse, and recite them on Friday afternoons. As well as I remember, this practice was begun in the primary grades; I know that it was continued through the grammar-school and high-school grades. As a training in public speaking, I am not sure that this discipline accomplished a great de...

The data represents the outcome of 1,005 interviews with as many interviewees in Croatia, conducted between 2021 and 2023. They were collected with a twofold purpose: to inquire what kind of literary texts non-professional readers remember, and to discover how they remember them. The findings are divided into six sections, focusing mostly on the texts and authors which were remembered by the readers, along with some quantitative data on their reading circumstances. The overall dataset’s reuse potential is discussed, pointing to potential examples within reader reception, and explaining what ob...

Izlaganje promislja hrvatsku književnost o ratu i njezinu artikulaciju iz rodne perspetkive.

[Scene: Pith interior] Bull McCabe: Who would insult me by bidding for my field here in Carraig-. thomond? Mick Planagau:There might be outsiders, Bull. Bull: Outsiders? Outsiders? Are these the same 'outsiders' who took the corn from our mouths when the potatoes Went rotten in the ditches? Flanagan: Ali, now Bull Bull: Are these the same 'outsiders' who took the meat from the tables when we lay in the ditches with the grass juice running green from our mouths? Flanagan: Take it easy Bull: Are these the same 'outsiders' who drove us to the coffin ships and scattered us to the four corners of t...

Based on memory,history preserves what has forever gone and disappeared in a permanent record.History is a story about the past and,like literary narrative,is put together in a coherent structure with a number of rhetorical devices.Contemporary Western literary theory has put much emphasis on the similarity between historical and literary narratives,but its extreme formulations have the dangerous tendency of erasing the difference between history and literature,or reality and fiction.More recently there have appeared some works in Western literary criticism that reexamine the trajectories of 2...

George Norman Garmonsway 1 The Early Germanic Background of Old English Verse, Frederick Norman (University of London, UK) 2 Runes and Non-Runes, R. I. Page (Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, UK) 3 Deor - a Begging Poem? Norman E. Eliason (University of North Carolina, USA) 4 Mens absentia cogitans in The Seafarer and The Wanderer, Peter Clemos (University of Cambridge, UK) 5 William of Malmesbury on the Works of King Alfred, Dorothy Whitelock (University of Cambridge, UK) 6 Old English '-calla', 'ceallian', E. G. Stanley (Queen Mary College, University of London, UK) 7 Comedy of Character in...

A "self-discipline"consciousness should be established in Shanghai literature study.It will be more beneficial to maintain moderate"alienation"with the overall Chinese literature study.Shanghai literature study can be extended and deepened with the cultural memory theory for reference.Time density of Shanghai history has caused writers' memory tension,while Shanghai cultural memory has affected writers' identity.In this way,writers' literary creation is directed and adjusted.Shanghai literature study should present literary"extended scenes",which requires the decoding of intertextuality betwee...

The systems and problems in working memory study on the elderly in China get some achievements and inter-Disciplinary researches and this kind of training research will be the trend of this field in China.

This paper summarizes the experimental research literature home and abroad of word length effect in working memory and long-term memory and draws conclusions as followings:the basic research theoretical frame is based on the classical working memory model created by A.D.Baddeley;the experimental design,the testing word groups and the exhibition process are different but the data collecting and the analysis tools are similar;the research based on Chinese experimental material in the long-term memory researches is still in blank at present in China.

abstract:The article uses two previous studies of non-professional, empirical readers of literature in order to constitute and compare their cultural memories about literary works which they have read and remembered well. It is based on the premise that individual memories of such works can, in aggregate, serve as an indicator of more wide-ranging preferences in a given culture. It is argued that this rather unique methodological and theoretical framework situates the paper at the crossroads of comparative literature, comparative cultural studies, and memory studies. Two samples of readers fro...

This review aims to draw balanced conclusions about trauma and memory from the intensely polarized debate currently raging over "repressed" memories, or better, delayed memories (hereafter DM).

It is a review of Memory Frictions in Contemporary Literature, book edited by Ma Jesus Martinez-Alfaro and Silvia Pellicer-Ortin and published in 2017.Memory Frictions in Contemporary Literature is a valuable contribution to memory studies that calls for a transformation of trauma studies from those with a focus on Euro-American events to a different kind where the multicultural and diasporic nature of contemporary culture is considered. The volume is composed of fourteen chapters divided into 4 parts that, according to Robert Eaglestone, deal with the relationship between memory and politics,...

Abstract:Cognitive science can help literary scholars formulate specific questions to be answered by archival research. This essay takes, as its starting point, embedded mental states (that is, mental states about mental states) and their role in generating literary subjectivity. It then follows the transformation of embedded mental states throughout several manuscripts of Christa Wolf’s autobiographical novel, Patterns of Childhood (Kindheitsmuster, 1976), available at the Berlin Academy of Arts. The author shows that later versions of Patterns of Childhood have more complex embedments in the...

The article examines the fragmented structure of the novels of beatnik writers, and the relationship of the fragment with the processes of memory representation in their novels. The purpose of the study is to trace the Beatniks’ understanding of the fragmentedness of human memory and to determine its artistic functions in their works. The article analyzes the early texts of the Beatniks, such as J. Kerouac’s “On the Road” and W. Burroughs’ “Junkie”, where the fragmented nature of memory is related to the authors’ autobiographies, aesthetic ideas of the Beat Generation and modernist writing. ‘F...

The recent death of Abiola Irele, the distinguished Nigerian literary scholar, at the age of eighty-one, represents a major loss to the fraternity of African letters, and marks the end of an era in the institution of literary criticism in Africa. More than any other scholar of his generation, Irele brought a forceful intellect, a cosmopolitan outlook, and authoritative voice to the study of African literature in the 1960s and 1970s, a period when it seemed to suffer from a crisis of identity as writers and critics struggled to emerge out of the shadows of colonial English and French studies. B...

As the bridge between modern writers and contemporary writers, Wang Zeng-qi inherits the tradition of writing hometown started by some famous writers in modern literature such as Nu Xun, Sheng Cong-wen, etc.. For Wang, writing about 'hometown' is his deliberate choice both in terms of his writing techniques and of his purpose. Hometown is the resource of thought as well as the resource of writing. He has the feeling of "home" in the text about Kunming, which fill in the role of a spiritual hometown. Meanwhile, there was a shift from narrating the present to recalling of the past in the way of ...

In this paper, performance of cache memory is evaluated through following factors cache time interval, miss rate and miss penalty.

Este artigo reflete sobre a memoria e a literatura, ambas inseridas numa perspectiva hermeneutica. Mostraremos que uma obra literaria tanto quanto um documento e/ou arquivo historico precisam ser interpretados, isto e, nao devem ser compreendidos somente no que dizem, mas tambem nas experiencias que testemunham em suas entrelinhas. O que os leitores apreendem desta narrativa historicoliteraria nao seria a vida em si, que permanece um enigma, entretanto, compreenderia os significados em que a vida se traduz, ou seja, suas categorias. Uma dessas categorias manifesta-se nas obras artisticas: a es...

ABSTRACT: This text shows Brazilian indigenous writers and their journey to become effective as content producers. The research took place through a bibliographic and audiovisual review on indigenous social, political and cultural movements, especially with articles and texts written by these people. This academic path was fundamental in tracing a history of the communities associating the way of guaranteeing rights to the development of indigenous literature. When bringing the voices of indigenous people to confirm the facts, the article demonstrates that such literature can be developed coll...

The March 12th 1971 coup d’etat traumatised the Turkish nation and its political and social culture. It was a pivotal moment in the struggles within Turkish politics between secularism, nationalism, and Islamism which remain part of the national discourse to this day. The ‘March 12th novels’ is a retroactive umbrella term used to describe the works of fiction written between 1971 and 1980 which take as their inspiration the events surrounding the coup d’etat; the military takeover, the battle between revolutionary left wing activists and nationalists, and the political and social fallout of th...

The history of mnemonic concepts encompasses utopian and sceptical views that produce either a hypertrophic memory or denounce any representation as false. Each literary text incorporates or stores other texts, thus mnemonic space unfolds between and within texts. In storing and accumulating cultural data, the literary text in its intertextual dimension functions as part of cultural memory. A fantastic text points to a silenced repressed memory, confronting culture with its oblivion. Yet the fantastic in restoring the displaced and vanished parts of culture is not merely a mnemonic memory: its...

One year after the massive, five-volume Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa Report appeared in 1998, we indisputably witness in Coetzee's Disgrace, by way of the account of professor David Lurie's downfall, the upheaval of a country in transition. The representation of this upheaval, however, drew considerable attention nationally and internationally and sparked a still ongoing debate on what Coetzee was trying to say about the life and times of post-apartheid South Africa. In this essay it is argued that an interpretation that allows itself to be guided too much by an allegori...

On the day these words were written, the director of the Pan American Health Organization, Dr. Carissa Etienne, announced that "Latin America has surpassed Europe and the United States in the daily number of reported Covid-19 infections," noting it "has become the epicenter of the COVID pandemic" (Darlington et al., 2020). The Los Angeles Times recently reported that "Latinos comprise about 40% of California's population but 53% of positive cases" of COVID-19, perhaps due to exposure risks endemic to Latinos providing high-contact essential labor, comprising 53% of food service workers, 59% of...

Abstract In the reading cultural openness, the human effort is the key to a de-construction that opens the source of knowledge. Can we only build libraries? Do we only read the book or also the author? The line of the book’s culture runs parallel to daily life or breaks the rhythm or tense knowledge. How do we build man-literature? Is knowledge an Oath in Gandhi’s meaning, a Covenant with a memory? And how does the dimension of human dignity evolve from reading into knowledge? We have no answer. However, we have a description of the interrogation process.

The goal of this article is to explore the concepts of memory and to explain specific features of a literary text. According to the German literary scholar Astrid Erll, a story could be presented in a cultural and/or a communicative mode. The analysis of the novels by Rūta Šepetys, Māra Zālīte, and Ilmar Taska shows trends of structural models of the narrative. The author of this study comes to the conclusion that writers tend to express processes of remembering in different ways. The choice of the mode could possibly be understood as a strategy of communication: the framework of presentation ...

By focusing almost exclusively on the circumstances of British colonialism, postcolonial theory has failed to take into consideration other histories of colonization and other forms of postcoloniality. By considering a few elements from the history of Portuguese colonialism and a few lusophone texts, it is my hope to demonstrate what I consider to be a limited perspective on postcolonial studies, at the same time that one may also ponder the fact that so much in postcolonial literature depends precisely on acts of remembrance. Ruins, all sorts of ruins, form a privileged space for the construc...

Introduction Thinking Beyond Nostalgia: Canadian Literature and Cultural Memory PART I: SITES OF MEMORY: CULTURAL AMNESIA AND THE DEMANDS OF PLACE Globalization and Cultural Memory: Perspectives from the Periphery on the Post-National Disassembly of Place Putting Things in Their Place: The Syncrude Gallery of Aboriginal Culture and the Idiom of Majority History Lieux d'oubli: The Forgotten North of Canadian Literature Design and Disappearance: Visual Nostalgias and the Canadian Company Town Preserving "the echoing rooms of yesterday": Al Purdy's A-frame and the Place of Writers' Houses in Cana...

The current appreciation of migrants’ literary work in the Netherlands shows that this literature is becoming established and is no longer limited to a few isolated successes. Migrant writers belong simultaneously to two cultures, a fact inevitably reflected in their work. The migration of entire communities has caused borders to fade, while cultures cease to be bound to so-called ‘fixed cartographies’. Literature is no longer studied as an autonomous phenomenon, disconnected from its context, and it is now generally accepted that authors write about or allude to real events, mixing fact and f...

It was concluded that the existence of Cache Memory on a computer system would be very useful and helped accelerate the processing of instructions or data.

The findings suggest that environmental adjustment is an easy and low-priced method that is beneficial even for patients in the most severe stages of dementia, since only a limited amount of training is necessary.

University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. September 2019. Major: Hispanic and Luso Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics. Advisor: Ana Forcinito. 1 computer file (PDF); v, 142 pages.

Resumo: O objetivo do presente texto é apresentar as potencialidades da literatura no que se refere a capacidade de (re)elaborações de memórias de prisões políticas e tortura no Brasil. Neste artigo será feito uma reflexão de uma memória doída e traumática, tomando a literatura como testemunho e fonte histórica, será considerado produções literárias como o poema  “ Os primeiros tempos da tortura" Alex Polari, para esta análise. Para tecer tais reflexões serão acionadas perspectivas importantes no campo discutido, a exemplo de BOSI (1996) DUFRENNE (1969) e ADORNO 2003).

Este artigo reflete sobre a memória e a literatura, ambas inseridas numa perspectiva hermenêutica. Mostraremos que uma obra literária tanto quanto um documento e/ou arquivo histórico precisam ser interpretados, isto é, não devem ser compreendidos somente no que dizem, mas também nas experiências que testemunham em suas entrelinhas. O que os leitores apreendem desta narrativa históricoliterária não seria a vida em si, que permanece um enigma, entretanto, compreenderia os significados em que a vida se traduz, ou seja, suas categorias. Uma dessas categorias manifesta-se nas obras artísticas: a es...

The aim of this paper, is to determine the status of the Holocaust themes in contemporary Serbian literature. Philip David’s novel House of memories and oblivion contains resonances of the civilization after World War II considering the fate of Jewish people in this war. The attempt to highlight the work and the way of Western civilization to define itself in respect of the Holocaust was made. David’s novel is an example of a literary text which tests the boundaries of narrative regarding life of those who survived the Holocaust and tryed to find their identity. Literary discourse also allows ...

This paper is a study of the growth of narratives that redesign history in the context of new ideologies. The interest of this paper is in the act of building the collective memory of Israel both thematically and in accordance to reception theory. This paper presents the question how religious crisis creates a new religious platform which is manifested in a form of a narrative that seeks to replace an older narrative and consequently has reshaped the collective memory of Israel.

The idea of home has always occupied a central position in diasporic literature contributing to the array of work that attempts to represent the complex nature of identity. The indigenous myths, in this respect, are a significant troupe that the diasporic writers use to revisit the memories of the motherland. This ̳going back‘ to one‘s homeland through the means of myths becomes a challenging task asit threatens to identify nostalgia with reality. The critical western approach coupled with a yearning for home create a space of conflict in literature where the writers‘ attempts to re-imagine t...

Abstract The staging of history in literature is engaged in dynamic exchange with society’s memory discourses and in this context, literature is generally seen as playing a creative role as a formative medium in memory cultures. For some time, however, many feel that established concepts of Cultural Memory Studies need to be reconsidered for multiethnic societies. The assumption is that official memory cultures tend to exclude people with a migrant background from identity-forming discourses about the past. Using Germany as an example, this paper argues, first, that the question of memory in m...

This article examines the representation, transmission, and circulation of war memory, and the role of personal and collective memory in shaping meanings, attitudes, and identities. The discussion will alternate between two aspects of the topic: the particular claim to truth that witness literature puts forward, and the process that leads from catastrophe to creativity, turning the victim into a writing witness who can undo forgetting and denial. War memory and its intersection with the concept of trauma is explored in the works of authors Xhevdet Bajraj and Ivana Bodrožić, renowned poets of c...

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