Beyond the Archive: Memory, Narrative, and the Autobiographical Process

ISBN-13: 9780190913625 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 424 str.

Jens Brockmeier

Opis

This book forces readers to radically rethink the idea of memory as an archive of the past. Examining the notion of remembering in the neurosciences, humanities, social studies, and in key works of autobiographical literature, these far-ranging studies shed new light on the narrative dynamic of remembering, forgetting, and identity.

Recenzje

A large-minded re-envisaging of memory built on an unrivalled depth of learning in cognitive neuroscience, history of ideas and narrative studies... A superb interdisciplinary synthesis that reconceptualises autobiographical meaning as acts of remembering and self-interpretation in the context of cultural memory.

O autorze

Jens Brockmeier is a professor at The American University of Paris. With a background in psychology, philosophy, and language studies, his interests are in issues of human identity, mind, and language, which he has examined in a variety of cultural contexts and under conditions of health and illness.