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100	1		_aWolf, Philipp _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aModernization and the Crisis of Memory : _bJohn Donne to Don DeLillo / _cPhilipp Wolf.
246	3		_aJohn Donne to Don DeLillo
264		1	_aLeiden; _aBoston : _bBRILL, _c2002.
300			_a1 online resource.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aBrill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
490	1		_aCosterus New Series ; _v139
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction -- Modern Intellectuals, Culture and Memory -- Cultural Memory -- 1 Early Modern to Romantic: The Secularization of Memory -- 2 The Victorian Evaporation of Memory -- The Standardization of Time: Industry and Transport -- Written and Pictorial Information and Sensationalism -- Retrochic, Novelty and Reification -- Reification -- Historicism -- Representation (and the Failure of Typology) -- History and Memory as Construction -- Jewish Messianic Memory as a Utopian Alternative -- The Demise of Cyclical History and Historical Contingency -- 3 Modernism: Epiphanic Memory -- Walter Pater and T.E. Hulme -- Modernist Epiphany and Amnesia -- W.B. Yeats -- 4 Postmodernism: Memory as Paranoia and Literary Construction (Don DeLillo) -- Alienation and Narrative Countermemory -- Postmodern Culture and the Decline of Organic Memory -- The Collective Memory of Waste and the Bomb -- Individual Countermemory -- Afterword -- Works Cited -- Index.
520			_aContemporary studies of memory focus either on the psychology of remembering, on its archives and media, or on the traditional ars memoriae . The general cultural framework with its social and material factors is largely neglected, despite the obvious impact on both collective and individual mnemonic mentality. But, as in the first half of the seventeenth century or the later twentieth century, the literary and political invocation of religious, collective or national memory occurs most of all in times of historical rupture, and attendant changes of a radical technological and cultural nature. Appeals to the power of memory are not only indicative of the anxiety about the loss of its binding or absolving character. They are already symptomatic of a deep crisis of cultural memory in itself, resulting from an erosion of firm spatial, temporal and historical references along with an increasing tendency towards reflexivity, which calls the apparently self-evident facts of past and present into question. The continuity of remembering, however, as this study argues, presupposes the permanence and recurrence of social and material relations, of representative or symbolic persons, objects and events, in which it can inscribe itself. But owing to the shift in historical consciousness from (typological) past to progressive future and novelty and under the impress of industrial production and modern media (mobility and communications), the Western subject has to cope constantly with new empirical situations, symbolic values and historical or current information whose origin and evolution - indeed, the very memory of them - remain alien to personal identity and memory. The promise of redemption and salvation, still inherent in seventeenth-century collective memory, loses credibility. The study includes a wide range of authors from Donne to Pope, Tennyson to George Eliot and Walter Pater, W.B. Yeats to Don DeLillo and covers the whole period from early modern England to postmodernism. It can thus also be read as a brief history of Western memory and its continuing crises.
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
650		0	_aEnglish literature _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aMemory in literature.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _tModernization and the Crisis of Memory : John Donne to Don DeLillo. _dLeiden ; Boston : BRILL, 2002 _z9789042015289
830		0	_aBrill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495.
830		0	_aCosterus New Series ; _v139.
856	4		_zDOI: _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004487055
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