Whitehead, Anne, 1971-

Memory / Anne Whitehead. - 1st ed. - London ; New York : Routledge, 2008. - 173 p. ; 21 cm. - The new critical idiom .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [162]-167) and index.

Introduction -- Memory and inscription -- The wax tablet -- The art of memory -- Memory and the book -- Memory and the self -- The turn inward -- Rousseau's chains of association -- The picture of the mind revives again -- Involuntary memories -- Freud's mystic writing pad -- Proust's Madeleine -- Traumatic memories -- Collective memory -- Maurice Halbwachs and collective memory -- Pierre Nora and the sites of memory -- War and collective memory -- Conclusion: The art of forgetting.

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Memory.

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