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Cultural Memory and Western Civilization: Functions, Media, Archives
Aleida Assmann
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Description for Cultural Memory and Western Civilization: Functions, Media, Archives
paperback. This book provides an introduction to the concept of cultural memory, offering a comprehensive overview of its history, forms and functions. Num Pages: 424 pages, 14 b/w illus. BIC Classification: HBG; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 227 x 154 x 24. Weight in Grams: 638. Functions, Media, Archives. 422 pages, 14 b/w illus. This book provides an introduction to the concept of cultural memory, offering a comprehensive overview of its history, forms and functions. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: HBG; JFC. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 24. Weight: 568.
Cultures invest great efforts into creating a long-term memory on the basis of oral transmission, media technology and institutional frameworks. This book provides an introduction to the concept of cultural memory, focusing on the 'arts' of its construction, particularly various media such as writing, images, bodily practices, places and monuments. Examining the period from the European Renaissance to the present, Aleida Assmann reveals the close association between cultural memory and the arts, arguing that the artists who have supplemented, criticized, transformed and opposed it are its most lucid theorists and acute observers. Her analysis also addresses the interaction of cultural ... Read more
Cultures invest great efforts into creating a long-term memory on the basis of oral transmission, media technology and institutional frameworks. This book provides an introduction to the concept of cultural memory, focusing on the 'arts' of its construction, particularly various media such as writing, images, bodily practices, places and monuments. Examining the period from the European Renaissance to the present, Aleida Assmann reveals the close association between cultural memory and the arts, arguing that the artists who have supplemented, criticized, transformed and opposed it are its most lucid theorists and acute observers. Her analysis also addresses the interaction of cultural ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Number of pages
422
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Weight
623g
Number of Pages
424
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521165877
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V9780521165877
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About Aleida Assmann
Aleida Assmann is a Professor of English Literature and Literary Theory in the Department of Literature, Art and Media at the University of Konstanz in Germany. She has also been a guest lecturer at universities including Rice, Princeton, Yale, and the University of Chicago. She is the author of several German-language books and has received international recognition for her scholarship, ... Read more
Reviews for Cultural Memory and Western Civilization: Functions, Media, Archives
'Aleida Assmann brings startling originality, brilliant explanation, and conceptual rigor to the difficult and sprawling terrain of memory. This is a classic, pathbreaking work to which readers will remain long indebted.' Peter Fritzsche, University of Illinois 'This is a pathbreaking study of a category that now is commonplace in both undergraduate and graduate studies in the humanities and social sciences. ... Read more