Cultural Memory and Literature: Re-Imagining Australia's Past - Rilegato

Molloy, Diane

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ISBN 10: 9004304061 ISBN 13: 9789004304062

Casa editrice: Brill Academic Pub, 2015

Riassunto

Cultural memory involves a community's shared memories, the selection of which is based on current political and social needs. A past that is significant to a national group is re-imagined by generating new meanings that replace earlier certainties and fixed symbols or myths. This creates literary syncretisms with moments of undecidability. The analysis in this book draws on Renate Lachmann's theory of intertextuality to show how novels that blur boundaries without standing in for history are prone to intervene in cultural memory.

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L'autore:

Diane Molloy has a doctorate in literature from Monash University, Australia. Her publications and research interests include Australian and German literary responses to the past, and the production and preservation of cultural memory.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Brill Academic Pub
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 9004304061
• ISBN 13: 9789004304062
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 225