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History, Memory, Trauma in Contemporary British and Irish Fiction

Author : Beata Piątek
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788323338246
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (382 download)

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Download or read book History, Memory, Trauma in Contemporary British and Irish Fiction written by Beata Piątek and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History, memory and trauma as well as their complex interrelations have been lying at the centre of interdisciplinary academic debates since the end of the previous century. These are also themes with which contemporary writers and other artists are increasingly preoccupied in their work. History, Memory, Trauma in Contemporary British and Irish Fiction is an attempt at analysing the relationship between history, memory and trauma in the selected novels of Pat Barker, Sebastian Barry, Kazuo Ishiguro and John Banville. The author examines the notion of memory in a variety of contexts: collective memory in the historical novels of Barker and Barry, individual memory as a foundation of the sense of self in the novels of Banville and Ishiguro, and traumatic memory in the novels of Barry and Ishiguro. By applying the theoretical framework of trauma studies to the work of those renowned writers, History, Memory, Trauma offers new interpretations of their novels. The author demonstrates that contemporary fiction moves beyond mere representation of trauma and engages the reader in the role of co-witness who enables the process of working through trauma.

Memory's Fictions

Author : Bienvenido N. Santos
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Memory's Fictions written by Bienvenido N. Santos and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

In Memory of Memory

Author : Maria Stepanova
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811228843
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book In Memory of Memory written by Maria Stepanova and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of life at the margins of history from one of Russia’s most exciting contemporary writers Shortlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize Winner of the MLA Lois Roth Translation Award With the death of her aunt, the narrator is left to sift through an apartment full of faded photographs, old postcards, letters, diaries, and heaps of souvenirs: a withered repository of a century of life in Russia. Carefully reassembled with calm, steady hands, these shards tell the story of how a seemingly ordinary Jewish family somehow managed to survive the myriad persecutions and repressions of the last century. In dialogue with writers like Roland Barthes, W. G. Sebald, Susan Sontag, and Osip Mandelstam, In Memory of Memory is imbued with rare intellectual curiosity and a wonderfully soft-spoken, poetic voice. Dipping into various forms—essay, fiction, memoir, travelogue, and historical documents—Stepanova assembles a vast panorama of ideas and personalities and offers an entirely new and bold exploration of cultural and personal memory.

Tell Me an Ending

Author : Jo Harkin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982164328
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book Tell Me an Ending written by Jo Harkin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-03 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About a tech company that deletes unwanted memories, the consequences for those forced to contend with what they tried to forget, and the dissenting doctor who seeks to protect her patients from further harm

Memory, Narrative, and Identity

Author : Amritjit Singh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Memory, Narrative, and Identity written by Amritjit Singh and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some of the essays consider a single writer, while others adopt a comparative approach. Some are multi-disciplinary, drawing on insights from anthropology or semiotics, while others provide close textual analysis.

History and Cultural Memory in Neo-Victorian Fiction

Author : Kate Mitchell
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230283128
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book History and Cultural Memory in Neo-Victorian Fiction written by Kate Mitchell and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-07-16 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org. Arguing that neo-Victorian fiction enacts and celebrates cultural memory, this book uses memory discourse to position these novels as dynamic participants in the contemporary historical imaginary.

Memory

Author : Philippe Grimbert
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416560009
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Memory written by Philippe Grimbert and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-12-30 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A runaway bestseller in Europe, "Memory" is a stunning combination of memoir and fiction. Twenty years after his mother and father jumped to their deaths, Grimbert, a psychoanalyst, explores the secrets that dominated his parents lives, in this beautiful and gripping novel.

Memory Wall

Author : Anthony Doerr
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 143918285X
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Memory Wall written by Anthony Doerr and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-07-13 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wise and beautiful second collection from the acclaimed, Pulitzer Prize-winning #1 New York Times bestselling author of All the Light We Cannot See, and Cloud Cuckoo Land, "Doerr writes about the big questions, the imponderables, the major metaphysical dreads, and he does it fearlessly" (The New York Times Book Review). Set on four continents, Anthony Doerr's new stories are about memory, the source of meaning and coherence in our lives, the fragile thread that connects us to ourselves and to others. Every hour, says Doerr, all over the globe, an infinite number of memories disappear. Yet at the same time children, surveying territory that is entirely new to them, push back the darkness, form fresh memories, and remake the world. In the luminous and beautiful title story, a young boy in South Africa comes to possess an old woman's secret, a piece of the past with the power to redeem a life. In "The River Nemunas," a teenage orphan moves from Kansas to Lithuania to live with her grandfather, and discovers a world in which myth becomes real. "Village 113," winner of an O'Henry Prize, is about the building of the Three Gorges Dam and the seed keeper who guards the history of a village soon to be submerged. And in "Afterworld," the radiant, cathartic final story, a woman who escaped the Holocaust is haunted by visions of her childhood friends in Germany, yet finds solace in the tender ministrations of her grandson. Every story in Memory Wall is a reminder of the grandeur of life--of the mysterious beauty of seeds, of fossils, of sturgeon, of clouds, of radios, of leaves, of the breathtaking fortune of living in this universe. Doerr's language, his witness, his imagination, and his humanity are unparalleled in fiction today.

Identity and Cultural Memory in the Fiction of A. S. Byatt

Author : L. Steveker
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230248594
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Book Synopsis Identity and Cultural Memory in the Fiction of A. S. Byatt by : L. Steveker

Download or read book Identity and Cultural Memory in the Fiction of A. S. Byatt written by L. Steveker and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-11 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides innovative readings of the key texts of A.S. Byatt's oeuvre by analysing the negotiations of individual identity, cultural memory, and literature which inform Byatt's novels. Steveker explores the concepts of identity constructed in the novels, showing them to be deeply rooted in British literary history and cultural memory.

The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu

Author : Tom Lin
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316542172
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu written by Tom Lin and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Carnegie Medal for Excellence Finalist for the Young Lions Fiction Award A Chinese American assassin sets out to rescue his kidnapped wife and exact revenge on her abductors in this New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice: a twist on the classic western from "an astonishing new voice" (Jonathan Lethem). Orphaned young, Ming Tsu, the son of Chinese immigrants, is raised by the notorious leader of a California crime syndicate, who trains him to be his deadly enforcer. But when Ming falls in love with Ada, the daughter of a powerful railroad magnate, and the two elope, he seizes the opportunity to escape to a different life. Soon after, in a violent raid, the tycoon's henchmen kidnap Ada and conscript Ming into service for the Central Pacific Railroad. Battered, heartbroken, and yet defiant, Ming partners with a blind clairvoyant known only as the prophet. Together the two set out to rescue his wife and to exact revenge on the men who destroyed Ming, aided by a troupe of magic-show performers, some with supernatural powers, whom they meet on the journey. Ming blazes his way across the West, settling old scores with a single-minded devotion that culminates in an explosive and unexpected finale. Written with the violent ardor of Cormac McCarthy and the otherworldly inventiveness of Ted Chiang, The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu is at once a thriller, a romance, and a story of one man's quest for redemption in the face of a distinctly American brutality. "In Tom Lin's novel, the atmosphere of Cormac McCarthy's West, or that of the Coen Brothers' True Grit, gives way to the phantasmagorical shades of Ray Bradbury, Charles Finney's The Circus of Dr. Lao, and Katherine Dunn's Geek Love. Yet The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu has a velocity and perspective all its own, and is a fierce new version of the Westward Dream." —Jonathan Lethem, author of Motherless Brooklyn

The Memory Police

Author : Yoko Ogawa
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1101870613
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book The Memory Police written by Yoko Ogawa and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2019-08-13 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the International Booker Prize and the National Book Award A haunting Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance, from the acclaimed author of The Housekeeper and the Professor. On an unnamed island, objects are disappearing: first hats, then ribbons, birds, roses. . . . Most of the inhabitants are oblivious to these changes, while those few able to recall the lost objects live in fear of the draconian Memory Police, who are committed to ensuring that what has disappeared remains forgotten. When a young writer discovers that her editor is in danger, she concocts a plan to hide him beneath her f loorboards, and together they cling to her writing as the last way of preserving the past. Powerful and provocative, The Memory Police is a stunning novel about the trauma of loss. ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR THE NEW YORK TIMES * THE WASHINGTON POST * TIME * CHICAGO TRIBUNE * THE GUARDIAN * ESQUIRE * THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS * FINANCIAL TIMES * LIBRARY JOURNAL * THE A.V. CLUB * KIRKUS REVIEWS * LITERARY HUB American Book Award winner

The Insistence of Memory

Author : Susan Quilty
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781976566257
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (662 download)

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Download or read book The Insistence of Memory written by Susan Quilty and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-09-18 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nothing could prepare Joanne for the secrets her husband left behind. As she stumbles through each day, attempting to raise their young daughters alone, Joanne soon learns that Jeff's basement tinkering had led to a remarkable invention: a machine that can record memories and play them back in someone else's mind. Now, Jeff's partner-in-crime wants to turn their unfinished project into a money-making scheme, while Joanne's best friend argues the dangers of dredging up buried memories. Joanne's heartache must take a backseat as she struggles to find balance between supporting the future of Jeff's incredible discovery and keeping her own troubled history safely locked in the past. The Insistence of Memory gently bends reality to let readers explore the truth of what we remember. What is real? What is blurred? What would we never want revealed?

Fiction, Memory, and Identity in the Cult of St. Maurus, 830–1270

Author : John B. Wickstrom
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030869458
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Fiction, Memory, and Identity in the Cult of St. Maurus, 830–1270 written by John B. Wickstrom and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-01-10 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores one of the most significant medieval saints’ cults, that of St. Maurus, the first known disciple of Saint Benedict. Despite the centrality of this story to the myth of medieval Benedictine culture, no major scholarly work has been devoted to Maurus since the late nineteenth century. Drawing on memory studies, this book investigates the origins and history of the cult, from the ninth-century Life of St. Maurus by Odo, abbot of Glanfueil, to its appropriation and re-shaping by three powerful abbeys through to the thirteenth century—Fossés, Cluny, and Montecassino. It traces how these institutions deployed caches of mostly forged documents (many translated here for the first time) to adapt the cult to their aspirations and, moreover, considers how the cult adapted itself further, to face the challenges of the modern world.

Memory and Identity in Canadian Fiction

Author : Sharon Selby
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476633339
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Memory and Identity in Canadian Fiction written by Sharon Selby and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-09-14 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering the works of Canadian authors Alistair Macleod, Michael Ondaatje, Jane Urquhart, Margaret Atwood and Drew Hayden Taylor, the author explores how the themes of memory, storytelling and identity develop in their fiction. For the narrative voices in these works, the past is embedded in the present and a wider cultural history is written over with personal significance. The act of storytelling shapes the characters' lives, letting them rewrite the past and be haunted by it. Storytelling becomes an existential act of everyday connection among ordinary people and daily (often unrecognized) acts of heroism.

Planetary Memory in Contemporary American Fiction

Author : Lucy Bond
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135102616X
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Planetary Memory in Contemporary American Fiction written by Lucy Bond and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-23 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers the ways in which contemporary American fiction seeks to imagine a mode of ‘planetary memory’ able to address the scalar and systemic complexities of the Anthropocene – the epoch in which the combined activity of the human species has become a geological force in its own right. Authors examine the recent emergence of a literary and cultural imaginary of planetary memory, an imaginary which attempts to give form to the complex interrelations between human and non-human worlds, between local, national, and global concerns, and, perhaps most importantly, between historical and geological pasts, presents and futures. Chapters highlight distinct regions and landscapes of the US - from the Appalachians, to the South West, the Rust Belt, New York City, Alaska, New Orleans and the Rocky Mountains – in order to examine how the ecological, economic and historical specificity of these environments is underpinned by their implication on networks of planetary significance and scope. Overall, the collection aims to study, develop, and recognise new models of cultural memory and anxious anticipation as they emerge and evolve, thus opening new conversations about practices of remembering and remembrance on an increasingly fragile planet. This book was originally published as a special issue of Textual Practice.

Millennial Memory Perspectives in Jewish American Fiction

Author : Heidi Schorr
Publisher : Georg Olms Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3487156458
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (871 download)

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Download or read book Millennial Memory Perspectives in Jewish American Fiction written by Heidi Schorr and published by Georg Olms Verlag. This book was released on 2017 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diese in englischer Sprache verfasste Dissertation fußt in den Feldern englische Literaturwissenschaft/Amerikanistik, Cultural Studies und Jewish American Studies. Sie untersucht die Repräsentation von Erinnerung in Werken von Jonathan Safran Foer, Shalom Auslander und Nicole Krauss, Mitgliedern der sogenannten third generation jüdisch amerikanischer SchriftstellerInnen, welche um den Millenniumswechsel publizieren. Der Fokus liegt auf Werken von Nicole Krauss. Symbolische Charaktere und Objekte, welche in Verbindung zu Erinnerung stehen, werden herausgearbeitet und im Detail analysiert. This work is rooted in the fields of English Literary Studies, Cultural Studies, and Jewish American Studies. It examines memory representation in exemplary works published around the millennial change by third generation Jewish American writers Jonathan Safran Foer, Shalom Auslander, and Nicole Krauss. The focus lies on the latter’s work. Symbolic characters and objects connected to memory are discerned and analyzed in detail.

Memory, War, and Dictatorship in Recent Spanish Fiction by Women

Author : Sarah Leggott
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
ISBN 13 : 161148667X
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book Memory, War, and Dictatorship in Recent Spanish Fiction by Women written by Sarah Leggott and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-10 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memory, War, and Dictatorship in Recent Spanish Fiction by Women analyzes five novels by women writers that present women’s experiences during and after the Spanish Civil War and Franco dictatorship, highlighting the struggles of female protagonists of different ages to confront an unresolved individual and collective past. It discusses the different narrative models and strategies used in these works and the ways in which they engage with their political and historical context, particularly in the light of campaigns for the so-called recovery of historical memory in Spain (the “memory boom”) and in the broader context of memory and trauma studies. The novels that are examined in this book are Dulce Chacón’s La voz dormida (2002), Rosa Regàs’s Luna lunera (1999), Josefina Aldecoa’s La fuerza del destino (1997), Carme Riera’s La mitad del alma (2005), and Almudena Grandes’s El corazón helado (2007). These works all highlight the multiple nature of memories and histories and demonstrate the complex ways in which the past impacts on the present. This book also considers the extent to which the memories represented in these five novels are inflected by gender and informed by the gender politics of twentieth-century and contemporary Spain.