Table of Contents
Cultural Memory Studies: An Introduction Astrid Erll 1
I Lieux de mémoire-Sites of Memory
Loci memoriae-Lieux de mémoire Pim Den Boer 19
Italian luoghi della memoria Mario Isnenghi 27
Mitteleuropa as a lieu de mémoire Jacques Le Rider 37
Sites of Memory in U.S.-American Histories and Cultures Udo J. Hebel 47
Sites of Memory and the Shadow of War Jay Winter 61
II Memory and Cultural History
Memory and the History of Mentalities Alon Confino 77
The Invention of Cultural Memory Dietrich Harth 85
Canon and Archive Aleida Assmann 97
Communicative and Cultural Memory Jan Assmann 109
Generation/Generationality, Generativity, and Memory Jürgen Reulecke 119
Cultural Memory: A European Perspective Vita Fortunati Elena Lamberti 127
III Social, Political, and Philosophical Memory Studies
Maurice Halbwachs's mémoire collective Jean-Christophe Marcel Laurent Mucchielli 141
From Collective Memory to the Sociology of Mnemonic Practices and Products Jeffrey K. Olick 151
Memory in Post-Authoritarian Societies Andreas Langenohl 163
Memory and Politics Erik Meyer 173
Social Forgetting; A Systems-Theory Approach Elena Esposito 181
Memory and Remembrance: A Constructivist Approach Siegfried J. Schmidt 191
Memory and Forgetting in Paul Ricæur's Theory of the Capable Self Maureen Junker-Kenny 203
IV Psychological Memory Studies
Psychology, Narrative, and Cultural Memory: Past and Present Jürgen Straub 215
Against the Concept of Cultural Trauma Wulf Kansteiner Harald Weilnböck 229
Experience and Memory: Imaginary Futures in the Past David Middleton Steven D. Brown 241
A Cognitive Taxonomy of Collective Memories David Manier William Hirst 253
Language and Memory: Social and Cognitive Processes Gerald Echterhoff 263
Cultural Memory and the Neurosciences Hans J. Markowitsch 275
Communicative Memory Harald Welzer 285
V Literature and Cultural Memory
Mnemonic and Intertextual Aspects of Literature Renate Lachmann 301
Cultural Memory and the Literary Canon Herbert Grabes 311
Life-Writing, Cultural Memory, and Literary Studies Max Saunders 321
The Literary Representation of Memory Birgit Neumann 333
The Dynamics of Remembrance: Texts between Monumentality and Morphing Ann Rigney 345
VI Media and Cultural Memory
The Texture of Memory: Holocaust Memorials in History James E. Young 357
The Photograph as Externalization and Trace Jens Ruchatz 367
Journalism's Memory Work Barbie Zelizer 379
Literature, Film, and the Mediality of Cultural Memory Astrid Erll 389
Memory and Media Cultures Martin Zierold 399
Index of Names 409
Index of Terms 423
Notes on Contributors 427
