Memory in the Twenty-First Century

New Critical Perspectives from the Arts, Humanities, and Sciences

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Paperback, blz. | Engels
Palgrave Macmillan UK | e druk, 2016
ISBN13: 9781349566426
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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.

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ISBN13:9781349566426
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:paperback
Uitgever:Palgrave Macmillan UK

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List of illustrations<BR>Foreword; N. Katherine Hayles<BR>Acknowledgements<BR>Notes on Contributors<BR>Introduction: Memory in the Twenty-first Century; Sebastian Groes <BR>PART I: METAPHORS OF MEMORY<BR>1. Metaphors of Memory: From the Classical World to Modernity; Corin Depper<BR>2. Proust, the Madeleine, and Memory; Barry C. Smith<BR>3. Proust Recalled: A Psychological Revisiting of that Madeleine Memory Moment; E. Leigh Gibson<BR>4. The Persistence of Surrealism: Memory, Dreams and the Dead; Jeannette Baxter<BR>5. 'There Was Nothing Hidden That Might Not Be Revealed': The Brain Observatory and the Imaginary Media of Memory Research; Flora Lysen<BR>6. Memory and the Fictional Imagination: Creating Memories; Peter Childs<BR>7. Misled by Metaphor; Nicholas Carr<BR>8. Calling Gaia: World Brains and Global Memory; Stephan Besser<BR>PART II: MEMORY IN THE DIGITAL AGE<BR>9. What's in a Brain?; Will Self<BR>10. Will Self and his Inner Seahorse; Hugo Spiers<BR>11. Navigation Aids in Neuropsychological Rehabilitation; Ineke van der Ham<BR>12. Living Digitally; Wendy Moncur<BR>13. Death and Memory in the Twenty-first Century; Stacey Pitsillides<BR>14. The Oceanic Literary Reading Mind: An Impression; Michael Burke<BR>15. Memory and the Reading Substrate; Adrian van der Weel<BR>16. Memory, Materiality the Ethics of Reading in the Digital age; Sebastian Groes <BR>PART III: ECOLOGIES OF MEMORY<BR>17. Time that is Intolerant; Claire Colebrook<BR>18. 'The Winters Were Colder and the Snows Deeper'; Mike Hulme<BR>19. Memories of Snow: Nostalgia, Amnesia, Re-reading; Greg Garrard<BR>20. Writing Climate Change; Maggie Gee<BR>21. Against Nostalgia: Antony Gormley, Ian McEwan and J. G. Ballard's Climate Change Art; Sebastian Groes<BR>PART IV: MEMORY AND THE FUTURE<BR>22. The Trace of the Future; Mark Currie<BR>23. Simulation and the Evolution of Thought; Joanna J. Bryson<BR>24. Imaginative Anticipation: Rethinking Memory for Alternative Futures; Jessica Bland<BR>25. Memory is No Longer What it Used to Be; Patricia Pisters<BR>26. 'We Can Remember It, Funes, Wholesale': Borges, Total Recall and the Logic of Memory; Adam Roberts<BR>27. Remembering Without Stored Contents: A Philosophical Reflection on Memory; Daniel D. Hutto<BR>PART V: FORGETTING<BR>28. Remembering; Larry R. Squire and John T. Wixted<BR>29. Directed Forgetting; Karen R. Brandt<BR>30. Remembrance in the Twenty-first Century; Peter Childs<BR>31. Memory, Hither Come: The Body and the Page in Poetry Readings as Remembrance of Composition; Holly Pester<BR>32. Our Plastic Brain: Remembering and Forgetting Art; Heather H. Yeung<BR>33. Amnesia and Identity in Contemporary Literature; Jason Tougaw<BR>34. Amnesia in Young Adult Fiction; Alison Waller<BR>35. Remembering Responsibly; Thomas F. Coker and Heather H. Yeung<BR>PART VI: TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY SUBJECTIVITIES<BR>36. Losing the Self? Subjectivity in the Digital Age; Claire Colebrook<BR>37. Memory and Voices: Challenging Psychiatric Diagnosis Through the Novel; Patricia Waugh<BR>38. Rereading the Self: On Remembering Multiple Selves In and Out of Young Adult Fiction; Alison Waller<BR>39. Neuroscience and Posthuman Memory; Robert Pepperell<BR>40. The Confabulation of Self; Joanna J. Bryson<BR>41. Malingering and Memory; Neander Abreu<BR>42. Trauma and the Truth; Martijn Meeter<BR>Conclusion: 'The Futures of Memory'; Sebastian Groes<BR>References<BR>Index

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