Top Research Papers on Memory Studies in Literature

above all how museums became not just instruments of the Enlightenment but agents for its promulgation. This becomes especially interesting with the subject of evolution. The problem with the book is that its scope is limited to Britain, the United States and Australia. What emerges is the need for a far more wide-ranging study that will show how evolution was presented in museums throughout the world. It would be fascinating to see how these displays were related to the rise of nationalism, communism and fascism, for all these movements had distinct museum programmes. Though it will be patchy...

The studies reported here grew out of a sense of frustration for what might be called the “standard” procedure in cross-cultural research. In a series of studies conducted over a three-year period this investigator and colleagues’ compared the word-recall performance of American and Kpelle subjects.? Reliable differences between these two groups were consistently found. Specifically, it was found that Americans when confronted with a task that required the recall of randomly presented words, tended t o cluster those words into taxonomic categories and showed, thereby, improved recall. Kpelle s...

28 Astrid Erll and Ansgar Nünning, in collaboration with Hanne Birk and Birgit Neumann (eds.), Gedächtniskonzepte der Literaturwissenschaft. Theoretische Grundlegung und Anwendungsperspektiven. [Concepts of Memory in Literary Studies. Perspectives in Theory and Application.] Media and Cultural Memory / Medien und Kulturelle Erinnerung 2. Berlin & New York: de Gruyter, 2005, vii + 326 pp., EUR 88.00.

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...

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.

This special issue of Alternation is the result of the Memory Studies Symposium that we organised in September 2013, but our academic research and personal interest in the field of memory has a long history for each of us. In 2012, Sabine proposed the introduction of an interdisciplinary postgraduate degree programme in Memory Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN). It was meant to provide a rigorous theoretical grounding for students with undergraduate foundations in many different academic disciplines and draw on staff resources and research expertise from across the university. T...

equivocations and surrender of the Tarpeia exemplum to his reader’s judgement (pp. 139–45) and by Propertian Tarpeia’s subjectivity, voiced desire and personal uncertainty (pp. 174–5). In these and other tellings, we learn how Rome’s transformations under the Caesars transmute Tarpeia. In Part 3, W. discloses how Simylus (Plut. Vit. Rom. 17), Dionysius (Ant. Rom. 2.38– 40) and Plutarch (Vit. Rom. 17–18) employ the TM as a lens on reciprocal belonging and acculturation between Romans and Greeks under Rome. In Chapter 8, we find that Simylus’ elegiac Tarpeia betrays Rome to the Gauls during the ...

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...

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...

An application that accessing vast data in an equipment of collecting and recording the information of faults, which is in an industrial control system, is presented at the last part.

The forced choice psychophysical experiment method was used to study the preference, the colourfulness and the naturalness memory colours of 29 familiar objects on mobile displays by Chinese observers to investigate the specific attributes of memory colour.

This study analyses, based on field research and textual analysis, memory book projects in Uganda as a folk-literary form. The memory book is a formatted workbook written by a parent, often a widowed mother living with HIV, for their child, about their family history, the parent’s life experiences, and their early memories of the child. This study first discusses the collective writing of memory books and how writers help each other in group writing sessions. It then analyses two memory books written by a 66-year old HIV-positive widowed farmer. It discusses her orality-imbued written narrat...

A the end of 1600, the elderly Flemish Jesuit Franciscus Costerus (1532–1619) returned from a pilgrimage to Rome—there had been another Jubilee—carrying two images of Ignatius of Loyola (1491–1556) and a letter from Claudio Acquaviva, the Society of Jesus’s Superior General. The first larger image had been painted on leather, the second smaller one was oval in shape. The Belgian province, the Society’s largest, was home to several older Jesuits who had met Ignatius in their youth. Acquaviva, who had joined the Society a decade after the death of its founder, wished to hear ‘the judgement of th...

Introduction 1. The Concept of Memory 2. Personal Identity and Memory 3. Remembering Without Knowing 4. In Defense of the Causal Theory of Memory 5. The Nature of Memory Causation 6. Pastist Externalism about Memory Content 7. In Defense of Pastist Externalism 8. The Authenticity of Memory 9. Concluding Remarks Bibliography Index

The Colegio Médico de Chile (College of Physicians of Chile) was a significant professional association with a long history and a leadership position in discussions about physicians as an occupational group and about public health in Chile. It opposed the socialist Popular Unity government (1970–1973), supported the military coup, collaborated actively with the dictatorship for several years afterward, and later joined the opposition demanding a return to democracy. Since the formal return to democracy in 1990, it has continued to participate in public discussions not only about health but als...

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This research report gives a general description of virtual memory systems andHardware implementation of the least recently used and least often used replacement policies using associative memories is presented.

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...

literature‹ Claudia Mueller-Greene in her essay The Concept of Limi-nality as a Theoretical Tool in Literary Memory Studies: Liminal Aspects of Memory in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children proposes two different perspectives on liminality: the mnemonic liminality of literature and the mnemonic liminality in literature. The article takes a close look at the specificity of liminality, the ambiguity, uncertainty, and chaos it involves, and aims to examine the applicability of the concept for Literary Memory Studies. Her case study of Salman Rushdie’s novel Midnight’s Children (1981) focusses on...

This article examines the opportunities and risks afforded by the consolidation of memory research into the subject area of `memory studies'. Debates about memory culture outside the academy and within academic memory research have hinged on its perceived over-personalization of the political. However, memory research is often informed by a broader ethical turn that understands itself to be transforming politics. The article argues that this split results in part from the over-generalizations produced by the travelling concepts of a transdisciplinary memory studies. It concludes that the polit...