Literature and Cultural Memory

432 Pages·2017·3.547 MB·English

by  Mihaela Irimia, Andreea Paris, Dragoş Manea

Literature and Cultural Memory
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Internationale Forschungen zur
Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden
Literaturwissenschaft
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Alfred Noe (University of Vienna)
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Sven H. Rossel (University of Vienna)
Stephanie M. Hilger (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
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Literature and Cultural Memory
Edited by
Mihaela Irimia
Dragoş Manea
Andreea Paris
LEIDEN | BOSTON
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In Memoriam Herbert Grabes
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Contents
List of Illustrations XI
Notes on Contributors xii
Introduction: Literature and/as (Cultural) Memory 1
Mihaela Irimia
part 1
Theoretical Papers
1 Shaping Memories 19
Peter Burke
2 The Value of Literature for Cultural Memory 31
Herbert Grabes
3 Memento Mori 50
Thomas Docherty
4 Ancestral Voices 63
C.W.R.D. Moseley
5 Between Authenticity and Reduplication: Cultural Memory in the
Information Age 72
Hans-Peter Söder
6 Memory and Focalization 83
Pia Brînzeu
7 Literature as Memory and Literary Memories: From Cultural Memory
to Reader-Response Criticism 95
Andreea Paris
part 2
Early Modernity
8 The Art of Memory and Literary Invention (Dante and Giulio
Camillo) 109
Lina Bolzoni
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9 The Memory of Names: Mapping Time into History 128
Petruţa Naiduţ
10 Two Giants in Love: Epic and Bucolic Poetry 136
Leonor Santa Bárbara
11 Remembering the Ottoman Past: Evliya Çelebi’s Book of Travels
and Our Times 145
Gerald MacLean
part 3
Classic Modernity (The Eighteenth Century)
12 The New Golden Age: The Cultural Memory of the Discoveries in the
Portuguese Enlightenment Imaginary 157
Luís Manuel A.V. Bernardo
13 The Cultural Memory of Faction: Civil War in Swift and Fielding 173
Jukka Tiusanen
14 The Memory of Seventeenth-Century Culture in Byron 188
Mirosława Modrzewska
part 4
High Modernity (The Nineteenth Century)
15 Pan between Renaissance and Fin-de-Siècle: The Lesson of Jacob
Burckhardt 203
Francesca Orestano
16 Framing the Florentine: Dante Alighieri’s Visual and Mental Images
in the Nineteenth Century 218
Christoph Lehner
17 The Scott Monument and Scottish Cultural Memory 232
Christoph Ehland
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18 National Tradition as a Code of Poetry in Nineteenth-Century
Hungarian Culture 250
László Gyapay
19 Literature, Intellectuals, and Politics: On Cultural Wars in the
Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries 265
Daniel Melo
part 5
Late Modernity (The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries)
20 Historical into Cultural Memory in James Joyce’s Ulysses 281
Adina Ciugureanu
21 The Creative Memories of Gilberto Freyre 293
Maria Lúcia G. Pallares-Burke
22 Postimperial Memory, Turkish Example 301
Donna Landry
23 “There are no Czechs or Germans”: Text and Context of Josef Urban’s
Habermannův mlýn [Habermann’s Mill] 316
Ludmila Volná
24 Melancholia, a Case for Cultural Memory 325
Rareş Moldovan
25 Literary into Popular into National Memory: The Art of Blasphemy
in a Romanian Novel of 2012 344
Ioana Zirra
26 Repurposed Memories: Da Vinci’s Demons and the Poetics
of Repackaging 362
Dragoş Manea
Bibliography 375
Index 408
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