Figures Of Memory
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Figures Of Memory
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Author : Michael Bernard-Donals
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2016-03-25
Figures Of Memory written by Michael Bernard-Donals and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-25 with History categories.
Explores how the USHMM and other museums and memorials both displace and disturb the memories that they are trying to commemorate. Figures of Memory examines how the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) in Washington, DC, uses its space and the design of its exhibits to “move” its visitors to memory. From the objects and their placement to the architectural design of the building and the floor plan, the USHMM was meant to teach visitors about the Holocaust. But what Michael Bernard-Donals found is that while they learn, and remember, the Holocaust, visitors also call to mind other, sometimes unrelated memories. Partly this is because memory itself works in multidirectional ways, but partly it’s because of decisions made in the planning that led to the creation of the museum. Drawing on material from the USHMM’s institutional archive, including meeting minutes, architectural renderings, visitor surveys, and comments left by visitors, Figures of Memory is both a theoretical exploration of memory—its relation to identity, space, and ethics—and a practical analysis of one of the most discussed memorials in the United States. The book also extends recent discussions of the rhetoric of memorial sites and museums by arguing that sites like the USHMM don’t so much “make a case for” events through the act of memorialization, but actually displace memory, disturbing it—and the museum visitor—so much so that they call it into question. Memory, like rhetorical figures, moves, and the USHMM moves its visitors, figuratively and literally, both to and beyond the events the museum is meant to commemorate. Michael Bernard-Donals is Nancy Hoefs Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His books include Forgetful Memory: Representation and Remembrance in the Wake of the Holocaust, also published by SUNY Press, and Jewish Rhetorics: History, Theory, Practice (coedited with Janice W. Fernheimer).
Figures Of Memory
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Author : Zsolt Komáromy
language : en
Publisher: Transits: Literature, Thought
Release Date : 2011
Figures Of Memory written by Zsolt Komáromy and has been published by Transits: Literature, Thought this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Literary Criticism categories.
Zsolt Kom romy's Figures of Memory: From the Muses to Eighteenth-Century British Aesthetics affects a rapprochement between memory studies and eighteenth-century British aesthetics. It argues that the assessment of memory in the history of aesthetics and criticism has been determined by the ideological import of the creative imagination, based on the dichotomies of imitative versus creative or reproductive versus productive mental and artistic procedures. The legacy of such an opposition can still be felt in the way the literary relevance of memory is based on either viewing it as a representational (reproductive, imitative) power that is a counter term to the creative sense of the imagination, or as a constructive (productive, creative) power that is assimilated by the creative imagination. The notion of memory, however, harbors problems that unsettle such dichotomies. This book does the timely work of employing insights offered by memory studies in reconsidering memory in the history of aesthetics: it suggests that memory's literary relevance is explained precisely by the problems that make it resistant to the reproductive-productive opposition. These problems are explored through various "figures" representing senses of memory, such as the Muses, or metaphors for memory in philosophical and critical discourse. Tracing figures of memory from the Muses through Plato and Descartes to works by Pope, Addison, Gerard and Kames, Kom romy reveals an undercurrent of thought in eighteenth-century British aesthetics that questions memory's nominal opposition to the imagination, and that exploits memory's simultaneously reproductive and constructive nature in the emerging theory of the imagination. By thus claiming that the tradition of memory's literary relevance is not marginalized but in fact perpetuated in eighteenth-century British critical thought, Figures of Memory gives a powerful new perspective on the history of memory in aesthetics and criticism. A theoretical work with claims for historical generalization, Figures of Memory will appeal to those interested in the history of aesthetics and criticism, in memory studies, in literary theory, to students of literature and memory, of literature and psychology, and to scholars of the eighteenth century with theoretical interests.
Figures Of Memory
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Author : Zsolt Komaromy
language : en
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Release Date : 2011-04-01
Figures Of Memory written by Zsolt Komaromy and has been published by Bucknell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
Zsolt Komáromy’s Figures of Memory: From the Muses to Eighteenth-Century British Aesthetics effects a rapprochement between memory studies and eighteenth-century British aesthetics. It argues that the assessment of memory in the history of aesthetics and criticism has been determined by the ideological import of the creative imagination, based on the dichotomies of imitative versus creative or reproductive versus productive mental and artistic procedures. The legacy of such an opposition can still be felt in the way the literary relevance of memory is based on either viewing it as a representational (reproductive, imitative) power that is a counterterm to the creative sense of the imagination, or as a constructive (productive, creative) power that is assimilated by the creative imagination. The notion of memory, however, harbors problems that unsettle such dichotomies. This book does the timely work of employing insights offered by memory studies in reconsidering memory in the history of aesthetics: it suggests that memory’s literary relevance is explained precisely by the problems that make it resistant to the reproductive-productive opposition. These problems are explored through various “figures” representing senses of memory, such as the Muses, or metaphors for memory in philosophical and critical discourse. Tracing figures of memory from the Muses through Plato and Descartes to works by Pope, Addison, Gerard and Kames, Komáromy reveals an undercurrent of thought in eighteenth-century British aesthetics that questions memory’s nominal opposition to the imagination , and that exploits memory’s simultaneously reproductive and constructive nature in the emerging theory of the imagination. By thus claiming that the tradition of memory’s literary relevance is not marginalized but in fact perpetuated in eighteenth-century British critical thought, Figures of Memory gives a powerful new perspective on the history of memory in aesthetics and criticism. A theoretical work with claims for historical generalization, Figures of Memory will appeal to those interested in the history of aesthetics and criticism, in memory studies, in literary theory, to students of literature and memory, of literature and psychology, and to scholars of the eighteenth century with theoretical interests.
Memory Trace For Figures In Recall And Recognition
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Author : Nelson Gilbert Hanawalt
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1937
Memory Trace For Figures In Recall And Recognition written by Nelson Gilbert Hanawalt and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1937 with Recognition (Psychology) categories.
Individual And Collective Memory Consolidation
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Author : Thomas J. Anastasio
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2012-02-24
Individual And Collective Memory Consolidation written by Thomas J. Anastasio and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-24 with Science categories.
An argument that individuals and collectives form memories by analogous processes and a case study of collective retrograde amnesia. We form individual memories by a process known as consolidation: the conversion of immediate and fleeting bits of information into a stable and accessible representation of facts and events. These memories provide a version of the past that helps us navigate the present and is critical to individual identity. In this book, Thomas Anastasio, Kristen Ann Ehrenberger, Patrick Watson, and Wenyi Zhang propose that social groups form collective memories by analogous processes. Using facts and insights from neuroscience, psychology, anthropology, and history, they describe a single process of consolidation with analogous—not merely comparable—manifestations on any level, whether brain, family, or society. They propose a three-in-one model of memory consolidation, composed of a buffer, a relator, and a generalizer, all within the consolidating entity, that can explain memory consolidation phenomena on individual and collective levels. When consolidation is disrupted by traumatic injury to a brain structure known as the hippocampus, memories in the process of being consolidated are lost. In individuals, this is known as retrograde amnesia. The authors hypothesize a "social hippocampus" and argue that disruption at the collective level can result in collective retrograde amnesia. They offer the Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) as an example of trauma to the social hippocampus and present evidence for the loss of recent collective memory in mainland Chinese populations that experienced the Cultural Revolution.
On Collective Memory
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Author : Maurice Halbwachs
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2020-05-21
On Collective Memory written by Maurice Halbwachs and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-21 with Social Science categories.
How do we use our mental images of the present to reconstruct our past? Maurice Halbwachs (1877-1945) addressed this question for the first time in his work on collective memory, which established him as a major figure in the history of sociology. This volume, the first comprehensive English-language translation of Halbwach's writings on the social construction of memory, fills a major gap in the literature on the sociology of knowledge. Halbwachs' primary thesis is that human memory can only function within a collective context. Collective memory, Halbwachs asserts, is always selective; various groups of people have different collective memories, which in turn give rise to different modes of behavior. Halbwachs shows, for example, how pilgrims to the Holy Land over the centuries evoked very different images of the events of Jesus' life; how wealthy old families in France have a memory of the past that diverges sharply from that of the nouveaux riches; and how working class construction of reality differ from those of their middle-class counterparts. With a detailed introduction by Lewis A. Coser, this translation will be an indispensable source for new research in historical sociology and cultural memory. Lewis A. Coser is Distinguished Professor of Sociology Emeritus at the State University of New York and Adjunct Professor of Sociology at Boston College.
Memory For Tactually Perceived Figures
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Author : William Langdon Faust
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1950
Memory For Tactually Perceived Figures written by William Langdon Faust and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1950 with Memory categories.
The Secret Of A Good Memory
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Author : Joseph Mortimer Granville
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1881
The Secret Of A Good Memory written by Joseph Mortimer Granville and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1881 with Mnemonics categories.
Memory Culture The Science Of Observing Remembering And Recalling
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Author : William Walker Atkinson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-03-15
Memory Culture The Science Of Observing Remembering And Recalling written by William Walker Atkinson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-15 with categories.
This book is a treaty on memory, and how to develop it. It analyzes in deep different techniques and methods; as well as several of the basic principles of memory, as Eye Perception, Ear Perception, Acquiring Impressions, Attention and Concentration; and Remembrance, Recollection and Recognition. It also explains the methods for the memorization of figures, dates and prices; memory of places, and memory of faces and names, and others. It is an invaluable reading for anybody interested in developing the memory, based on systems that have been proved and successful for many decades.
Blueprints For Memory
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Author : William D. Hersey
language : en
Publisher: AMACOM/American Management Association
Release Date : 1990
Blueprints For Memory written by William D. Hersey and has been published by AMACOM/American Management Association this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Business & Economics categories.
Tells how to strengthen one's short-term memory, concentrate better, remember names and faces, improve one's time management, and enhance one's sales techniques