Literature and Memory: Theoretical Paradigms, Genres, Functions

African American African American literature Alcázar Ansgar Ansgar Nünning argues Assmann autobiography Barthes Belgian biographical Burned Child Seeks claim cognitive collective memory colonial concept of memory construction contemporary context Cordelia criticism cultural memory cultural remembrance Dandelion Clock Derrida discourse empire metaphors Erll Eurico European example Exodus experience fact fantastic fictional metabiographies field of cultural figure function Gedächtnis genre Hartman Heidegger historical novel Holocaust human ibid identity individual interpretation intertextuality Jan Assmann Lachmann language literary studies literary texts literature and memory Mangal Pande means mémoire mimesis Modernism moral witness narrative narrator passages past pharmakon Plato play poem poetry political postcolonial Postmodernism present Radstone reader reading reality refers remembering repetition representation Ring role Roy Sommer semiosis semiotic sense significant social specific story structure T.S. Eliot technique term theory tion tive Toledo Tollebeek traditional translation truth Victorian Völkischer Beobachter Wordsworth's writing