The Ashgate Research Companion to Memory Studies

Edited by

SIOBHAN KATTAGO

Tallinn University, Estonia

ASH GATE

Contents

List of Figures List of Tables Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements

Introduction: Memory Studies and its Companions Siobhan Kattago

PART I: MEMORY, HISTORY AND TIME

1

2

3

4

History as an Art of Memory Revisited Patrick H. Hutton

Chateaubriand, Selfhood and Memory Peter Fritzsche

Dialectical Memory: The Intersection of Individual and Collective Memory in Hegel Angelica Nuzzo

Spectral Phenomenology: Derrida, Heidegger and the Problem of the Ancestral Hans Ruin

PART II: SOCIAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL AND CULTURAL FRAMEWORKS OF MEMORY

ASHGATE RESEARCH COMPANION

vii ix xi xv

1

23

39

49

61

5 Continuity and Innovation in the Art of Memory 75 Luisa Passerini

6 From Collectivity to Collectiveness: Reflections (with Halbwachs and Bakhtin) on the Concept of Collective Memory 89 Alexandre Dessingue

7 A Unified Approach to Collective Memory: Sociology, Psychology and the Extended Mind 103 William Hirst and Charles B. Stone

THE ASHGATE RESEARCH COMPANION TO MEMORY STUDIES

8

9

Mannheim and the Sociological Problem of Generations: Events as Inspiration and Constraint Vered Vinitzky-Seroussi

Semiotic Theory of Cultural Memory: In the Company of Juri Lotman Marek Tamm

PART III: ACTS AND PLACES OF MEMORY

10

11

12

13

Travel Companions Mieke Bal

'Forked no Lightning': Remembering and Forgetting in the Shadow of Big Ben Stuart Burch

Written in Stone: Monuments and Representation Siobhan Kattago

Theories of Memory and the Imaginative Force of Fiction Julie Hansen

117

127

145

163

179

197

PART IV: POLITICS OF MEMORY, FORGETTING AND DEMOCRACY

14

15

16

17

Memory and Methodological Cosmopolitanism: A Figurative Approach Daniel Levy

Hannah Arendt and Thomas Paine: Companions in Remembering, Forgetting and Beginning Again Bradford Vivian

Interactions between History and Memory: Historical Truth Commissions and Reconciliation Eva-Clarita Pettai

Post-Stalinist Russia: Memory and Mourning Alexander Etkind

Afterword Jeffrey K. Olick

Index

vi

211

225

237

251

265

269

5.1 5.2

10.1 10.2

10.3

10.4

10.5 10.6

11.1 11.2

11.3 11.4

12.1 12.2 12.3 12.4 12.5

ASH GATE RESEARCH COMPANION

List of Figures

Giulio Camillo' s 'Memory Theatre' (1582) 83 Giordano Bruno's 'Wheel of Memory' (1544) 84

Mieke Bal, Nothing is Missing, multi-channel video installation 147 Mieke Bal & Michelle Williams Gamaker, Saying It (Freud Museum, London, 2012) 148 Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Where is Where? (2008). HD installation for 6 projections with sound. Final image of middle part, Adel's last sentence 150 Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Where Is Where? (2008). HD installation for 6 projections with sound. The Priest ('Guardian Angel') leads the boys through the queuing ropes 152 Doris Salcedo, Plegaria muda, installation (2011) 155 Doris Salcedo, Plegaria muda, installation (2011). Detail 156

Big Ben 3D Puzzle 166 William Wordsworth, 'Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey' (1798), Lyrical Ballads, vol. 1, 4th edn 169 Brian Haw in Parliament Square (7 July 2007) 171 Text Fragment 175

Soviet monuments behind the Estonian History Museum (2013) 181 Head of Lenin, Estonian History Museum (2013) 182 Neue Wache Memorial 186 Bronze Soldier 188 Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe 189

List of Tables

6.1 Uses of the collective memory concept 6.2 Collective memory as a polysemic concept

ASHGATE RESEARCH COMPANION

94 100