Editing the Nation’s Memory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Editing the Nation’s Memory write by . This book was released on 2015-07-14. Editing the Nation’s Memory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Europe’s nation-states emerged from a complex of nineteenth-century developments in which cultural consciousness-raising played a formative role. The nineteenth-century reflection on Europe’s national identities involved a re-inventory and revalorisation of the vernacular cultural past and, above all, the nation’s literary heritage. Everywhere in Europe, foundational texts (including medieval epics and romances, ancient laws and chronicles) were retrieved from their obscure repositories. In new, printed editions, prepared according to the emerging academic standards of textual scholarship, they were appropriated, contested and canonised as public symbols of the nation’s permanence in history. This often neglected, but crucially important Europe-wide process of ‘editing the nation’s memory’ involved old states and emerging nations, large and small countries, metropolitan and peripheral regions; it straddled politics, the academic professionalization of textual scholarship and of the human sciences, and literary taste. This collection of studies by outstanding specialists offers a comparative synopsis on exemplary cases from all corners of the European continent.
Recovering the Nation's Body
Recovering the Nation's Body - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Recovering the Nation's Body write by Linda F. Hogle. This book was released on 1999. Recovering the Nation's Body available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This text analyzes the practices involved in procuring human tissue, and examines how the German past and present-day situation within the European Union are key in understanding the form that medical practices take within various contexts.
Book-Men, Book Clubs, and the Romantic Literary Sphere
Book-Men, Book Clubs, and the Romantic Literary Sphere - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Book-Men, Book Clubs, and the Romantic Literary Sphere write by Ina Ferris. This book was released on 2015-08-29. Book-Men, Book Clubs, and the Romantic Literary Sphere available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book re-reads the tangled relations of book culture and literary culture in the early nineteenth century by restoring to view the figure of the bookman and the effaced history of his book clubs. As outliers inserting themselves into the matrix of literary production rather than remaining within that of reception, both provoked debate by producing, writing, and circulating books in ways that expanded fundamental points of literary orientation in lateral directions not coincident with those of the literary sphere. Deploying a wide range of historical, archival and literary materials, the study combines the history and geography of books, cultural theory, and literary history to make visible a bookish array of alterative networks, genres, and locations that were obscured by the literary sphere in establishing its authority as arbiter of the modern book.
Memory, History, Nation
Memory, History, Nation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Memory, History, Nation write by Susannah Radstone. This book was released on 2017-09-04. Memory, History, Nation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the last decade, a focus on memory in the human sciences has encouraged new approaches to the study of the past. As the humanities and social sciences have put into question their own claims to objectivity, authority, and universality, memory has appeared to offer a way of engaging with knowledge of the past as inevitably partial, subjective, and local. At the same time, memory and memorial practices have become sites of contestation, and the politics of memory are increasingly prominent. This inter-disciplinary volume demonstrates, from a range of perspectives, the complex cultural work and struggles over meaning that lie at the heart of what we call memory.The chapters in this volume offer a complex awareness of the workings of memory, and the ways in which different or changing histories may be explained. They explore the relation between individual and social memory, between real and imaginary, event and fantasy, history and myth. Contradictory accounts, or memories in direct contradiction to the historical record are not always the sign of a repressive authority attempting to cover something up. The tension between memory as a safeguard against attempts to silence dissenting voices, and memory's own implication in that silencing, runs throughout the book. Topics covered range from the Basque country to Cambodia, from Hungary to South Africa, from the Finnish Civil War to the cult Jim Jarmusch movie Dead Man, from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame to Australia. Part I, ""Transforming Memory"" is concerned primarily with the social and personal transmission of memory across time and generations. Part II, ""Remembering Suffering: Trauma and History,"" brings the after-effects of catastrophe to the fore. Part III, ""Patterning the National Past,"" the relation between nation and memory is the central issue. Part IV, ""And Then Silence,"" reflects on the complex and multiple meaning of silence and oblivion, wherein amnesia is often used as a figure for the denial of shamefu
Memories of Post-Imperial Nations
Memories of Post-Imperial Nations - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Memories of Post-Imperial Nations write by Dietmar Rothermund. This book was released on 2015-05-14. Memories of Post-Imperial Nations available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Memories of Post-Imperial Nations presents the first transnational comparison of Great Britain, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Portugal, Italy and Japan, all of whom lost or 'decolonized' their overseas empires after 1945. Since the empires of the world crumbled, the post-imperial nations have been struggling to come to terms with the present, and as recall sets in 'wars of memory' have arisen, leading to a process of collective 'editing'. As these nations rebuild themselves they shed old characteristics and acquire new ones, looking at new orientations. This book brings together varying perspectives with historians and political scientists of these nations attempting to bind memory and its experience of different post-imperial nations.
