Literature and cultural memory /
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. High and low culture as te...
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Brill/Rodopi,
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Publisher Address: | Leiden : |
Publication Dates: | [2017] |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
Series: |
Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft,
volume 194 |
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Summary: |
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. High and low culture as texts embedded in the texture of memory, as well as material culture as a communal receptacle and reservoir of memory are analysed in their historical contingency. Symbolic representations of accepted and counter history/ies, and the cultural nodes and mechanisms of the cultural imaginary are also i |
Carrier Form: | xx, 411 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [375]-407) and index. |
ISBN: |
9789004338869 9004338861 |
Index Number: | PN56 |
CLC: | I06 |
Call Number: | I06/L776 |