Groes - Memory in the Twenty-First Century

Memory in the Twenty-First Century

New Critical Perspectives from the Arts, Humanities, and Sciences

Medium: Buch

ISBN: 978-1-349-56642-6

Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Erscheinungstermin: 04.03.2016

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This book maps and analyses the changing state of memory at the start of the twenty-first century in essays written by scientists, scholars and writers. It recontextualises memory by investigating the impact of new conditions such as the digital revolution, climate change and an ageing population on our world.

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Artikelnummer: 9781349566426
Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-1-349-56642-6
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Erscheinungstermin: 04.03.2016
Sprache(n): Englisch
Auflage: 1. Auflage 2016
Produktform: Kartoniert
Gewicht: 645 g
Seiten: 400
Format (B x H x T): 155 x 235 x 24 mm
Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt

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List of illustrations
Foreword; N. Katherine Hayles
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Memory in the Twenty-first Century; Sebastian Groes
PART I: METAPHORS OF MEMORY
1. Metaphors of Memory: From the Classical World to Modernity; Corin Depper
2. Proust, the Madeleine, and Memory; Barry C. Smith
3. Proust Recalled: A Psychological Revisiting of that Madeleine Memory Moment; E. Leigh Gibson
4. The Persistence of Surrealism: Memory, Dreams and the Dead; Jeannette Baxter
5. 'There Was Nothing Hidden That Might Not Be Revealed': The Brain Observatory and the Imaginary Media of Memory Research; Flora Lysen
6. Memory and the Fictional Imagination: Creating Memories; Peter Childs
7. Misled by Metaphor; Nicholas Carr
8. Calling Gaia: World Brains and Global Memory; Stephan Besser
PART II: MEMORY IN THE DIGITAL AGE
9. What's in a Brain?; Will Self
10. Will Self and his Inner Seahorse; Hugo Spiers
11. Navigation Aids in Neuropsychological Rehabilitation; Ineke van der Ham
12. Living Digitally; Wendy Moncur
13. Death and Memory in the Twenty-first Century; Stacey Pitsillides
14. The Oceanic Literary Reading Mind: An Impression; Michael Burke
15. Memory and the Reading Substrate; Adrian van der Weel
16. Memory, Materiality the Ethics of Reading in the Digital age; Sebastian Groes
PART III: ECOLOGIES OF MEMORY
17. Time that is Intolerant; Claire Colebrook
18. 'The Winters Were Colder and the Snows Deeper'; Mike Hulme
19. Memories of Snow: Nostalgia, Amnesia, Re-reading; Greg Garrard
20. Writing Climate Change; Maggie Gee
21. Against Nostalgia: Antony Gormley, Ian McEwan and J. G. Ballard's Climate Change Art; Sebastian Groes
PART IV: MEMORY AND THE FUTURE
22. The Trace of the Future; Mark Currie
23. Simulation and the Evolution of Thought; Joanna J. Bryson
24. Imaginative Anticipation: Rethinking Memory for Alternative Futures; Jessica Bland
25. Memory is No Longer What it Used to Be; Patricia Pisters
26. 'We Can Remember It, Funes, Wholesale': Borges, Total Recall and the Logic of Memory; Adam Roberts
27. Remembering Without Stored Contents: A Philosophical Reflection on Memory; Daniel D. Hutto
PART V: FORGETTING
28. Remembering; Larry R. Squire and John T. Wixted
29. Directed Forgetting; Karen R. Brandt
30. Remembrance in the Twenty-first Century; Peter Childs
31. Memory, Hither Come: The Body and the Page in Poetry Readings as Remembrance of Composition; Holly Pester
32. Our Plastic Brain: Remembering and Forgetting Art; Heather H. Yeung
33. Amnesia and Identity in Contemporary Literature; Jason Tougaw
34. Amnesia in Young Adult Fiction; Alison Waller
35. Remembering Responsibly; Thomas F. Coker and Heather H. Yeung
PART VI: TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY SUBJECTIVITIES
36. Losing the Self? Subjectivity in the Digital Age; Claire Colebrook
37. Memory and Voices: Challenging Psychiatric Diagnosis Through the Novel; Patricia Waugh
38. Rereading the Self: On Remembering Multiple Selves In and Out of Young Adult Fiction; Alison Waller
39. Neuroscience and Posthuman Memory; Robert Pepperell
40. The Confabulation of Self; Joanna J. Bryson
41. Malingering and Memory; Neander Abreu
42. Trauma and the Truth; Martijn Meeter
Conclusion: 'The Futures of Memory'; Sebastian Groes
References
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