Sebastian Groes Memory in the Twenty-First Century New Critical Perspectives from the Arts, Humanities, and Sciences

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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.

€106.99

Table of Content

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 Mc Ewan 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

Index

About the author

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 Mc Ewan and Kazuo Ishiguro, and published The Making of London. He is the Principal Investigator of the AHRC and Wellcome Trust-funded The Memory Network.

Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 400 ● ISBN 9781137520586 ● File size 3.4 MB ● Editor Sebastian Groes ● Publisher Palgrave Macmillan UK ● City London ● Country GB ● Published 2016 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 4847179 ● Copy protection Social DRM