Mapping memory in nineteenth-century French literature and culture
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Mapping memory in nineteenth-century French literature and culture
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Rodopi, 2012
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Text in English and French
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Memory and memory studies have shaped a major site of humanities research over the last twenty years. Examined by ethnographers, archaeologists, social scientists, historians, economists, archivists, art historians, and literary scholars, the theme of memory - individual memory and memoir, collective memory, official memory and oral memory, cultural memory and popular memory - has informed academic discourse and formed institutional structures. Yet, the matter of memory is, paradoxically, under-explored in studies of the 'long nineteenth century' in France. Mapping Memory in Nineteenth-Century French Literature and Culture focuses critical attention on that neglected century when France was struggling to negotiate the serially renewed memory of revolutionary turmoil and socio-cultural redefinition. This volume explores the spaces that the memory process claims and shapes, and it works to identify the crosscurrents that connect those spaces. It asks how memory resists - or cedes to - colonisations by authority, by official discourse, by history, and by aesthetics. It asks how memory-work coincides with or morphs into the processes of the imagination. Eschewing diachronic approaches, the contributors to this volume explore sites around which memory is concentrated or which it shapes and informs: Memory on the Street; Sites of National Memory; Metamorphoses: Memory and Literary Practice; and Memory's Imaginary Spaces.
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Preface
Susan Harrow and Andrew Watts: Introduction
Memory on the Street
Colette Wilson: The Word on the Street: Remembering the Paris Commune in the Twenty-First Century
Elizabeth Emery: Staging La Fete des fous et de l'ane in 1898 : A Commemoration of the Literary Middle Ages
Luc Nemeth: La Composante populaire de l'Affaire Dreyfus et ses effets d'oubli ulterieur
Richard Saint-Gelais: Spectres de Madame Bovary: La transfictionnalite comme rememoration
Sites of National Memory
Brian Martin: Napoleonic Memory and Memoir: Military Friendship and the Memoirs of Colonel Combe
Melanie Vandenbrouck-Przybylski: Myth-Making and Memento: L'Expedition des Portes de Fer
Remi Dalisson: La Fete nationale, espace de construction d'une memoire nationale au XIX siecle
Ben Fisher: Reporting on the Nineteenth Century: Catulle Mendes, Le Mouvement poetique francais de 1867 a 1900
Metamorphoses: Memory and Literary Practice
Owen Heathcote: Balzac's 'mal d'archive'? 'Lieux de memoire' in Le Lys dans la vallee
Lucy Garnier et Cecile Meynard: L'Ecriture du souvenir dans les 'Journaux' de Stendhal
Tim Farrant: Rememorer Rabelais en France au XIXe siecle: un souvenir d'avenir?
Denis Saint-Amand: Souvenirs zutiques, en vers et contre tous
Memory's Imaginary Spaces
Mary Orr: Cultural History in Question: Flaubert's La Legende de saint Julien l'hospitalier and the Genres of Collective Memory
Carmen Mayer-Robin: Memory, Vision and Meaning in La Tentation de saint Antoine: The Mechanics of a Narrative Hallucination
Emilie Piton-Foucault: Territoire de la memoire, territoire du reel dans La Faute de l'Abbe Mouret d'Emile Zola
Francesco Manzini: Prophesying the Past: Memory and Sacrifice in Barbey d'Aurevilly's Un pretre marie
Index
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