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Author:   Astrid Erll (Professor of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures, Professor of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures, Goethe University Frankfurt) ,  William Hirst (Malcolm B. Smith Professor of Psychology, Malcolm B. Smith Professor of Psychology, New School for Social Research)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.70cm , Height: 2.90cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.526kg
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9780197788349

ISBN 10:   0197788343
Pages:   464
Publication Date:   03 March 2026
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Contributors Introduction: Breaking Down the Silos in Collective Memory Research (Astrid Erll and William Hirst) Part 1: Memory Across the Mind and the Wild Introduction Chapter 1: The Two Cultures of Collective Memory Revisited (Jeffrey K. Olick) Chapter 2: Distributed Remembering and Cognitive Philosophy (John Sutton) Chapter 3: Psychological Approaches to the Study of Collective Memory (William Hirst) Chapter 4: Histories of Public Pasts (Carol Gluck) Part 2: Generation and Memory Introduction Chapter 5: Intergenerational Narratives and Autobiographical Memory (Robyn Fivush) Chapter 6: Postmemory: Art and Practice Across Generations (Marianne Hirsch) Chapter 7: History in Family Memory (Aline Cordonnier and Olivier Luminet) Chapter 8: Generation and Collective Memories of National and World Events (Amy D. Corning) Part 3: National and Transnational Memory Introduction Chapter 9: Comparing National Narratives (James V. Wertsch) Chapter 10: The Psychology of National Memory (Henry L. Roediger, III and Magdalena Abel) Chapter 11: Cosmopolitanization and Mnemonic Processes (Daniel Levy) Chapter 12: Fictions of Transoceanic Memory (Hanna Teichler) Part 4: Narrative, Emotion, and Memory Introduction Chapter 13: Narrative Form and Emotion (Tilmann Habermas) Chapter 14: Collective Memory as Collaborative Narration (Brian Schiff) Chapter 15: The Effects of Emotions on Memories (Olivier Luminet and Aline Cordonnier) Chapter 16: Trauma of Tomorrow: Environmental Breakdown, Affect, and Cultural Narratives (Stef Craps) Chapter 17: Memory and the History of Emotion: Letters from the First World War (Sílvia Correia) Part 5: Media and Big Data Introduction Chapter 18: Media and Memory: The Case of the Odyssey (Astrid Erll) Chapter 19: Memory in Algorithmic Culture (Rik Smit) Chapter 20: Data Science and the Dynamics of Collective Memory (Cristian Candia) Chapter 21: Social Media and Collective Memory (Charles B. Stone) Part 6: Conflict and Commemorative Culture Introduction Chapter 22: Meta-Memory: The Battle Lines of Twenty-First Century Political Conflict (Wulf Kansteiner) Chapter 23: Memory versus Reconciliation: Dilemma of Post-Conflict Peacebuilding (Valérie Rosoux) Chapter 24: Conflict and Comparison: The Case of Holocaust Memory (Michael Rothberg) Chapter 25: Collective Memory and Social Representations of History (James H. Liu and Sarah Y. Choi) Chapter 26: Conflicting Memory Narratives (Aleida Assmann) Part 7: Future Thinking and Transformative Memory Introduction Chapter 27: Collective Future Thinking (Jeremy K. Yamashiro and Meymune Nur Topçu) Chapter 28: Media and Future Thinking (Piotr M. Szpunar and Karl K. Szpunar) Chapter 29: Memory of Potentiality and Memory of the Future in Literature (Justyna Tabaszewska) Chapter 30: Remembering Activism and the Agency of the Aesthetic (Ann Rigney) Chapter 31: On (Not) Learning from the Past (Sarah Gensburger) Afterword: After the Roundtables (Astrid Erll and William Hirst) Index

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Astrid Erll is Professor of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures at Goethe University Frankfurt. In 2011, she founded the Frankfurt Memory Studies Platform, a vibrant forum for international and interdisciplinary dialogues on collective memory. She is the author of Travels in Time (Oxford, 2025) and Memory in Culture (2011), which has been translated into five languages. William Hirst is Malcolm B. Smith Professor of Psychology at the New School for Social Research. He examines the contribution of the cognitive sciences to the study of social and collective memory and the ways this work can be integrated into the more humanities-and social science-based approaches to Memory Studies. He has published over 150 articles and edited five books on these topics.

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