Memory in the Twenty-First Century (eBook)

New Critical Perspectives from the Arts, Humanities, and Sciences

Sebastian Groes (Herausgeber)

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2016
400 Seiten
Palgrave Macmillan UK (Verlag)
978-1-137-52058-6 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Neander Abreu, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil Jeannette Baxter, Anglia Ruskin University, UK Stephan Besser, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Jessica Bland, Nesta, UK Karen R. Brandt, University of Roehampton, UK Joanna J. Bryson, University of Bath, UK Michael Burke, Utrecht University, Netherlands Nicholas Carr, independent scholar, USA Peter Childs, Newman University, UK Thomas F. Coker, independent scholar, UK Claire Colebrook, Penn State University, USA Mark Currie, Queen Mary, University of London, UK Corin Depper, Kingston University, UK Greg Garrard, University of British Columbia, Canada Maggie Gee OBE, Bath Spa University, UK Leigh Gibson, University of Roehampton, UK Sebastian Groes, University of Roehampton, UK Ineke van der Ham, Utrecht University, Netherlands N. Katherine Hayles, Duke University, USA Mike Hulme, King's College London, UK Daniel D. Hutto, University of Wollongong, Australia Flora Lysen, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Martijn Meeter, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands Wendy Moncur, University of Dundee, UK Robert Pepperell, Cardiff School of Art & Design, UK Holly Pester, University of Essex, UK Patricia Pisters, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Stacey Pitsillide, University of Greenwich, UK Adam Roberts, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Will Self, Brunel University, UK Barry C Smith, School of Advanced Study, University of London, UK Hugo Spiers, University College London, UK Larry R. Squire, University of California, USA Jason Tougaw, City University of New York, USA Alison Waller, University of Roehampton, UK Patricia Waugh, Durham University, UK Adriaan van der Weel, University of Leiden, Netherlands John T. Wixted, University of California, USA Heather H. Yeung, Bilkent University, Turkey

Autor

Sebastian Groes is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Roehampton University, UK. He specialises in modernist and contemporary fiction, has written on authors including Ian McEwan and Kazuo Ishiguro, and published The Making of London. He is the Principal Investigator of the AHRC and Wellcome Trust-funded The Memory Network.

Inhalt

List of illustrationsForeword; N. Katherine HaylesAcknowledgementsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: Memory in the Twenty-first Century; Sebastian Groes PART I: METAPHORS OF MEMORY1. Metaphors of Memory: From the Classical World to Modernity; Corin Depper2. Proust, the Madeleine, and Memory; Barry C. Smith3. Proust Recalled: A Psychological Revisiting of that Madeleine Memory Moment; E. Leigh Gibson4. The Persistence of Surrealism: Memory, Dreams and the Dead; Jeannette Baxter5. 'There Was Nothing Hidden That Might Not Be Revealed': The Brain Observatory and the Imaginary Media of Memory Research; Flora Lysen6. Memory and the Fictional Imagination: Creating Memories; Peter Childs7. Misled by Metaphor; Nicholas Carr8. Calling Gaia: World Brains and Global Memory; Stephan BesserPART II: MEMORY IN THE DIGITAL AGE9. What's in a Brain?; Will Self10. Will Self and his Inner Seahorse; Hugo Spiers11. Navigation Aids in Neuropsychological Rehabilitation; Ineke van der Ham12. Living Digitally; Wendy Moncur13. Death and Memory in the Twenty-first Century; Stacey Pitsillides14. The Oceanic Literary Reading Mind: An Impression; Michael Burke15. Memory and the Reading Substrate; Adrian van der Weel16. Memory, Materiality the Ethics of Reading in the Digital age; Sebastian Groes PART III: ECOLOGIES OF MEMORY17. Time that is Intolerant; Claire Colebrook18. 'The Winters Were Colder and the Snows Deeper'; Mike Hulme19. Memories of Snow: Nostalgia, Amnesia, Re-reading; Greg Garrard20. Writing Climate Change; Maggie Gee21. Against Nostalgia: Antony Gormley, Ian McEwan and J. G. Ballard's Climate Change Art; Sebastian GroesPART IV: MEMORY AND THE FUTURE22. The Trace of the Future; Mark Currie23. Simulation and the Evolution of Thought; Joanna J. Bryson24. Imaginative Anticipation: Rethinking Memory for Alternative Futures; Jessica Bland25. Memory is No Longer What it Used to Be; Patricia Pisters26. 'We Can Remember It, Funes, Wholesale': Borges, Total Recall and the Logic of Memory; Adam Roberts27. Remembering Without Stored Contents: A Philosophical Reflection on Memory; Daniel D. HuttoPART V: FORGETTING28. Remembering; Larry R. Squire and John T. Wixted29. Directed Forgetting; Karen R. Brandt30. Remembrance in the Twenty-first Century; Peter Childs31. Memory, Hither Come: The Body and the Page in Poetry Readings as Remembrance of Composition; Holly Pester32. Our Plastic Brain: Remembering and Forgetting Art; Heather H. Yeung33. Amnesia and Identity in Contemporary Literature; Jason Tougaw34. Amnesia in Young Adult Fiction; Alison Waller35. Remembering Responsibly; Thomas F. Coker and Heather H. YeungPART VI: TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY SUBJECTIVITIES36. Losing the Self? Subjectivity in the Digital Age; Claire Colebrook37. Memory and Voices: Challenging Psychiatric Diagnosis Through the Novel; Patricia Waugh38. Rereading the Self: On Remembering Multiple Selves In and Out of Young Adult Fiction; Alison Waller39. Neuroscience and Posthuman Memory; Robert Pepperell40. The Confabulation of Self; Joanna J. Bryson41. Malingering and Memory; Neander Abreu42. Trauma and the Truth; Martijn MeeterConclusion: 'The Futures of Memory'; Sebastian GroesReferencesIndex

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.3.2016
• Zusatzinfo: XXI, 400 p.
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: Autism • climate change • Cognition • cognitive offloading • Contemporary fiction • dementia • Digital Revolution • E-Reading • Evolution • Fiction • Futurology • GPS • Ian McEwan • Internet • Kindle • Marcel Proust • Memory • Mental Illness • metaphors of memory • mobile phones • Neuroscience • Science • The Internet
• ISBN-10: 1-137-52058-2 / 1137520582
• ISBN-13: 978-1-137-52058-6 / 9781137520586