Format:
Online-Ressource (242 S.)
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Ill., Kt.
ISBN:
9783837627862
Series Statement:
Mainzer historische Kulturwissenschaften 22
Content:
Main description: 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 authors develop an understanding of memory boxes as cultural constructions that are involved in the process of making and disputing memory - but which, simultaneously, are important agents for cultural transfer over space and time. This book emphasises »memory box« as an idea that allows us to study the cultural processes of transfer in conjunction with cultural memory.
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Description based upon print version of record
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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
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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
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An Epilogue. Reflections on Working with the Concept of Memory BoxList of Contributors
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783839427866
Additional Edition:
Druckausg. Memory boxes Bielefeld : transcript-Verl., 2014 ISBN 3837627861
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783837627862
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
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Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
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Ethnology
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English Studies
Keywords:
Kulturaustausch
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Kollektives Gedächtnis
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Geschichtsbild
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Geschichtsdarstellung
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Kulturelle Identität
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Electronic books
Author information:
Rogge, Jörg 1962-
Author information:
Aali, Heta
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