
The Mnemonic Imagination
Remembering as Creative Practice
Palgrave Macmillan (Publisher)
Published on 31. July 2012
Book
Hardback
VIII, 239 pages
978-0-230-24336-1 (ISBN)
Description
An exploration of some of the key theoretical challenges and conceptual issues facing the emergent field of memory studies, from the relationship between experience and memory to the commercial exploitation of nostalgia, using the key concept of the mnemonic imagination.
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Edition
2012 edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Paper over boards
Illustrations
VIII, 239 p.
Dimensions
Height: 218 mm
Width: 135 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-230-24336-1 (9780230243361)
DOI
10.1057/9781137271549
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Persons
EMILY KEIGHTLEY is Lecturer in Communication and Media Studies at Loughborough University, UK. She has published her research on time, memory and everyday life in a number of international journals. She is the editor of Time, Media and Modernity and is currently co-editing Research Methods for Memory Studies with Michael Pickering. She is also Assistant Editor of Media, Culture and Society.
MICHAEL PICKERING is Professor of Media and Cultural Analysis at Loughborough University, UK. He has published in the areas of social and cultural history, the sociology of art and culture, and media and communication studies. His most recent books include Researching Communications (2007); Blackface Minstrelsy in Britain (2008); Research Methods for Cultural Studies (2008); and Popular Culture, a four-volume edited collection (2010).
MICHAEL PICKERING is Professor of Media and Cultural Analysis at Loughborough University, UK. He has published in the areas of social and cultural history, the sociology of art and culture, and media and communication studies. His most recent books include Researching Communications (2007); Blackface Minstrelsy in Britain (2008); Research Methods for Cultural Studies (2008); and Popular Culture, a four-volume edited collection (2010).
Content
An Outline of What Lies Ahead Memory and Experience The Mnemonic Imagination Personal and Popular Memory The Reclamation of Nostalgia The Foreclosure of Mnemonic Imagining Creative Memory and Painful Pasts Coda Index