Beyond the archive : memory, narrative, and the autobiographical process /

"Our longstanding view of memory and remembering is in the midst of a profound transformation. This transformation does not only affect our concept of memory or a particular idea of how we remember and forget; it is a wider cultural process. In order to understand it, one must step back and con...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brockmeier, Jens
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2015]
Series:Explorations in narrative psychology.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction: The Memory Crisis
  • 2. Imagining Memory: The Archive Disintegrates
  • 3. Shaping Memory: History, Metaphor, and Narrative
  • 4. Interpreting Memory: The Narrative Alternative
  • 5. Dissecting Memory: Unraveling the Autobiographical Process
  • 6. Creating the Memory of Oneself: Narrative Identity
  • 7. Inhabiting a Culture of Memory: The autobiographical Process as a Form of Life
  • 8. Dissolving the Time of Memory: The autobiographical Process as Temporal Self-Localization
  • 9. Beyond time: The Autobiographical Process as Search Movement
  • 10. Reframing Memory
  • References
  • Index.