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Jan 2, 2024 · Memory in Literature & Literary Theory. Memory, in a theoretical sense, refers to the cognitive process of encoding, storing, and retrieving information within the human mind.
A focus on trauma’s institutional trajectory in literary and cultural theory serves to narrow the transnational and multidirectional scope of memory studies.
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Claudia Mueller-Greene uses the concept of liminality, established in Ethnology and Anthropology, as a new perspective to better understand the ambiguous and cre-ative aspects of memory and of literary texts dealing with memory.
Dec 19, 2018 · The process of remembering inflicts the psychological pain but also ascribes value to a previously repressed experience in the unconscious. This traumatic remembering is termed “pathogenic reminiscences” for the pathologic symptoms the memory causes (Breuer and Freud 1955: 40).
Using literature as a laboratory for the workings of the mind, this comparative study of writers from Jean-Jacques Rousseau to Octavio Paz, including Proust, Breton, Woolf and Faulkner, uncovers valuable material for the classification of the memory process.
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Neumann describes the interlace between literature and memory as twofold: »In their world-creation, literary works resort to culturally predominant ideas of memory, and, through their literary techniques, represent these ideas in an aesthetically condensed form.«
er fundamental and striking book: The Art of Memory, written in 1966 by English scholar Frances Yates. In it she discusses, among other sub jects, the fantastic theories—in the unreal sense of the term—of Giulio Camillo Delminio and Robert Fludd on the so-called Theater of Memory. Both Renaissance thinkers described our mnemonic facul
