Memory boxes : an experimental approach to cultural transfer in history, 1500 - 2000
This volume discusses a practical approach to cultural transfer and exchange through the concept of »memory box«. Ideas of displacement, transfer, and cultural memory are explored through case studies from Scotland to Italy and Germany and from Finland and France to the American colonies. The author...
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Bielefeld : transcript Verlag,
2014
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| Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel: | Mainz historical cultural sciences
Vol. 22 |
| Schlagworte: | Cultural relations Culture diffusion Politics and culture Geschichtsdarstellung Kollektives Gedächtnis Kulturaustausch Geschichtsbild Kulturelle Identität Cultural Transfer, History, Cultural Memory, Cultural Exchange, Memory Culture, Cultural History, European History, Cultural Studies SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture |
| Umfang: | Online-Ressource (242 S.) |
Inhaltsangabe:
- cover Memory Boxes; CONTENT; Preface; Memory Boxes. An Experimental Approach to Cultural Transfer in History, 1500-2000; TOPOI; Topoi as a Memory Box; How to Visualise an Event that is not Representable? The Topos of Massacre in François Dubois' St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre; The Topos of Martyrdom as a Memory Box. The Book of Martyrs by John Foxe and the Fresco Cycle at San Tomaso di Canterbury; The Topos of Golden Age in Friedrich Schlegel's Notion of Cultural Transfer from Antiquity to Early Nineteenth-Century Germany; Providence. The Making of a Religious-political Memory Box
- PERSONALITIESPersonalities as a Memory Box; The Personality of Queen Clotilde in Early Nineteenth- Century France; Henry the Lion - Enrico Leone. A Precious Memory Box of the House of Brunswick; ARTEFACTS; Artefacts as a Memory Box; Becoming of a Memory Box: the Kalevala. Sung Poetry, Printed Word and National Identity; Encapsulating Visions of Nationhood. Finland (1911) as a Memory Box; Diaries, Material Memory Holders. Creating a Memory Box; "We wanted a parliament but they gave us a stone". The Coronation Stone of the Scots as a Memory Box in the Twentieth Century
- An Epilogue. Reflections on Working with the Concept of Memory BoxList of Contributors