Holger Hoock (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780197264065
- eISBN:
- 9780191734496
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197264065.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
This volume explores the commemoration of the Battle of Trafalgar and Admiral Lord Nelson's death over the past two centuries. It includes the celebrations of 2005, which saw hundreds of official, ...
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This volume explores the commemoration of the Battle of Trafalgar and Admiral Lord Nelson's death over the past two centuries. It includes the celebrations of 2005, which saw hundreds of official, commercial, and popular events celebrating and commemorating the bicentenary of Trafalgar and the death of Nelson. Leading historians of Britain and France reflect critically on complex notions of remembrance, celebration, honouring, and commemoration. Taking historical snapshots of the commemoration of Nelson at his death, a century later in 1905, and in contemporary Britain, the contributors ask: who drives the commemoration of historical anniversaries and to what ends? Which Nelson, or Nelsons, have had a role in national memory over the past two centuries? And who identifies with Nelson today? Focusing on Britain, but looking also at imperial and French contexts, the papers consider how memoirs, history writing, visual and modern media and museums, and official and unofficial interests, contribute to keeping and shaping memory. As the changing manner of memorializing key moments in national history allows historians to study cultural meanings and interpretations of national identity, the contributors to this volume exhort the wider profession to engage critically with ‘public history’. This work is about the history of memory and commemoration and will be of interest those with general interests in naval, maritime, cultural and public history.Less
This volume explores the commemoration of the Battle of Trafalgar and Admiral Lord Nelson's death over the past two centuries. It includes the celebrations of 2005, which saw hundreds of official, commercial, and popular events celebrating and commemorating the bicentenary of Trafalgar and the death of Nelson. Leading historians of Britain and France reflect critically on complex notions of remembrance, celebration, honouring, and commemoration. Taking historical snapshots of the commemoration of Nelson at his death, a century later in 1905, and in contemporary Britain, the contributors ask: who drives the commemoration of historical anniversaries and to what ends? Which Nelson, or Nelsons, have had a role in national memory over the past two centuries? And who identifies with Nelson today? Focusing on Britain, but looking also at imperial and French contexts, the papers consider how memoirs, history writing, visual and modern media and museums, and official and unofficial interests, contribute to keeping and shaping memory. As the changing manner of memorializing key moments in national history allows historians to study cultural meanings and interpretations of national identity, the contributors to this volume exhort the wider profession to engage critically with ‘public history’. This work is about the history of memory and commemoration and will be of interest those with general interests in naval, maritime, cultural and public history.
Nanci Adler
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780199240906
- eISBN:
- 9780191598869
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0199240906.003.0010
- Subject:
- Political Science, Democratization
This chapter explores Russia’s attempts to come to terms with its Stalinist past in an endeavour to build a civil society based on the rule of law. It begins by examining the nature of Stalinist ...
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This chapter explores Russia’s attempts to come to terms with its Stalinist past in an endeavour to build a civil society based on the rule of law. It begins by examining the nature of Stalinist repression and the legacy of Soviet terror. It goes on to focus on halted official efforts at truth telling, and persistent unofficial efforts, led by the organization Memorial, at remembering and commemorating; this provides insight into the issues that daunted the quest for moral recovery. The chapter then looks at post-Soviet efforts to come to terms with the Stalinist past, and finally it assesses the impact of the discussion of past injustices, or the politics of memory, on Russia’s subsequent process of democratization. The information presented and the conclusions drawn are necessarily based on a number of scattered sources, including memoirs, interviews and official archives; Russia’s experience is unique, and difficult to compare with other post-authoritarian political systems, especially as democracy has not taken substantial hold, and, since the transition is so new, questions of accountability are only beginning to be addressed.Less
This chapter explores Russia’s attempts to come to terms with its Stalinist past in an endeavour to build a civil society based on the rule of law. It begins by examining the nature of Stalinist repression and the legacy of Soviet terror. It goes on to focus on halted official efforts at truth telling, and persistent unofficial efforts, led by the organization Memorial, at remembering and commemorating; this provides insight into the issues that daunted the quest for moral recovery. The chapter then looks at post-Soviet efforts to come to terms with the Stalinist past, and finally it assesses the impact of the discussion of past injustices, or the politics of memory, on Russia’s subsequent process of democratization. The information presented and the conclusions drawn are necessarily based on a number of scattered sources, including memoirs, interviews and official archives; Russia’s experience is unique, and difficult to compare with other post-authoritarian political systems, especially as democracy has not taken substantial hold, and, since the transition is so new, questions of accountability are only beginning to be addressed.
Ian Donaldson
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780197263181
- eISBN:
- 9780191734595
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197263181.003.0005
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
The arts of memory and of biography have always been closely related. For instance, the memoir, which is an act of remembrance, has a double sense: it looks at the past and to the future, selecting ...
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The arts of memory and of biography have always been closely related. For instance, the memoir, which is an act of remembrance, has a double sense: it looks at the past and to the future, selecting from the stream of memories to form an enduring record called memorial by which events and people can be remembered in the years to come. In Restoration England, memoirs and memorials were popular forms when the word ‘biography’ first appeared. During this period there was an intense interest in the chronicling of the lives of those who contributed much to political and religious events. This commemoration of lives, which gained momentum in Restoration England, was an ancient enterprise. Biographies were regarded as durable monuments wherein the idea of remembrance took an important place. This attributed significance made those endowed with powerful memories venerated people. This chapter discusses the remarkable memorialists of the period. It looks at the career of Reverend Dr. Thomas Fuller as a biographer and as an author of many historical works. Fuller exhibited a photographic memory and an inclination to the memorization of long passages. In addition to this technique, he also adopted a rule that assisted memory; he employed the methodical distribution of facts into discrete locations. As for his biographical methods, Fuller considered two factors: the sense of pragmatism, and the sense of piety.Less
The arts of memory and of biography have always been closely related. For instance, the memoir, which is an act of remembrance, has a double sense: it looks at the past and to the future, selecting from the stream of memories to form an enduring record called memorial by which events and people can be remembered in the years to come. In Restoration England, memoirs and memorials were popular forms when the word ‘biography’ first appeared. During this period there was an intense interest in the chronicling of the lives of those who contributed much to political and religious events. This commemoration of lives, which gained momentum in Restoration England, was an ancient enterprise. Biographies were regarded as durable monuments wherein the idea of remembrance took an important place. This attributed significance made those endowed with powerful memories venerated people. This chapter discusses the remarkable memorialists of the period. It looks at the career of Reverend Dr. Thomas Fuller as a biographer and as an author of many historical works. Fuller exhibited a photographic memory and an inclination to the memorization of long passages. In addition to this technique, he also adopted a rule that assisted memory; he employed the methodical distribution of facts into discrete locations. As for his biographical methods, Fuller considered two factors: the sense of pragmatism, and the sense of piety.
Max Saunders
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- May 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199579761
- eISBN:
- 9780191722882
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199579761.003.0007
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century Literature and Romanticism, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
This shorter chapter is really a coda to the first half of the book, arguing that an alternative contemporary response to the disturbance in life‐writing is represented by the impressionist ...
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This shorter chapter is really a coda to the first half of the book, arguing that an alternative contemporary response to the disturbance in life‐writing is represented by the impressionist autobiographies of the novelists Henry James, Joseph Conrad, and Ford Madox Ford. It discusses the recent rehabilitation of the concept of literary impressionism in theoretical studies of fiction. While its discussion of the impression looks back to the studies of Pater, Ruskin, and Proust, it also looks forward to the modernists discussed in Part II.Less
This shorter chapter is really a coda to the first half of the book, arguing that an alternative contemporary response to the disturbance in life‐writing is represented by the impressionist autobiographies of the novelists Henry James, Joseph Conrad, and Ford Madox Ford. It discusses the recent rehabilitation of the concept of literary impressionism in theoretical studies of fiction. While its discussion of the impression looks back to the studies of Pater, Ruskin, and Proust, it also looks forward to the modernists discussed in Part II.
Adrian Parr
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748627547
- eISBN:
- 9780748652433
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748627547.001.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
This book presents a detailed study of contemporary forms of public remembrance. It considers the different character traumatic memory takes throughout the sphere of cultural production and argues ...
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This book presents a detailed study of contemporary forms of public remembrance. It considers the different character traumatic memory takes throughout the sphere of cultural production and argues that contemporary memorial culture has the power to put traumatic memory to work in a positive way. Drawing on the conceptual apparatus of Gilles Deleuze, the book outlines the relevance of his thought to cultural studies and the wider phenomenon of traumatic theory and public remembrance. This approach is interdisciplinary, drawing on media criticism, psychoanalysis, cultural studies, urbanism, continental philosophy and political economy. A number of case studies are examined including the holocaust, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington DC, 9/11, the Amish shootings in Pennsylvania USA, the documentation and dissemination of US military abuses at Abu Ghraib prison, as well as the consumption and reification of trauma. The book offers a revision of trauma theory that presents trauma not simply as a definitive experience and implicitly negative, but an experience that can foster a sense of hope and optimism for the future.Less
This book presents a detailed study of contemporary forms of public remembrance. It considers the different character traumatic memory takes throughout the sphere of cultural production and argues that contemporary memorial culture has the power to put traumatic memory to work in a positive way. Drawing on the conceptual apparatus of Gilles Deleuze, the book outlines the relevance of his thought to cultural studies and the wider phenomenon of traumatic theory and public remembrance. This approach is interdisciplinary, drawing on media criticism, psychoanalysis, cultural studies, urbanism, continental philosophy and political economy. A number of case studies are examined including the holocaust, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington DC, 9/11, the Amish shootings in Pennsylvania USA, the documentation and dissemination of US military abuses at Abu Ghraib prison, as well as the consumption and reification of trauma. The book offers a revision of trauma theory that presents trauma not simply as a definitive experience and implicitly negative, but an experience that can foster a sense of hope and optimism for the future.
Gerhard P. Gross (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780813175416
- eISBN:
- 9780813175447
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813175416.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Military History
This book presents research on the eastern front of World War I, a subject comparatively eclipsed by scholarly study of the western front. Focusing on the first two years of the war, the volume ...
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This book presents research on the eastern front of World War I, a subject comparatively eclipsed by scholarly study of the western front. Focusing on the first two years of the war, the volume concentrates primarily on elements of the conflict between the Central Powers (specifically Germany and its ally Austria-Hungary) and pre-revolutionary Russia. The book approaches topics of interest through a tripartite structure, addressing the operational conduct of the war, the combatants’ cultural conceptions of themselves and the enemy, and how the conflict has been understood and commemorated in the years since the end of the war. The volume concludes with a chapter that brings together themes studied throughout the book in a discussion of the potential continuities between the German conduct and perception of war from the First World War to the Second.Less
This book presents research on the eastern front of World War I, a subject comparatively eclipsed by scholarly study of the western front. Focusing on the first two years of the war, the volume concentrates primarily on elements of the conflict between the Central Powers (specifically Germany and its ally Austria-Hungary) and pre-revolutionary Russia. The book approaches topics of interest through a tripartite structure, addressing the operational conduct of the war, the combatants’ cultural conceptions of themselves and the enemy, and how the conflict has been understood and commemorated in the years since the end of the war. The volume concludes with a chapter that brings together themes studied throughout the book in a discussion of the potential continuities between the German conduct and perception of war from the First World War to the Second.
Rushmir Mahmutćehajić
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- March 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780823227518
- eISBN:
- 9780823237029
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fso/9780823227518.003.0037
- Subject:
- Religion, Islam
Man is in the world and opposite it. Accepting submission, which is the way of existence of that opposite world, means the confirmation of the human nature of the created one. And that nature demands ...
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Man is in the world and opposite it. Accepting submission, which is the way of existence of that opposite world, means the confirmation of the human nature of the created one. And that nature demands a Creator. One seeks the other. The Creator manifests Himself in the created one who is, thus, the revelation of His Words. Without the created one the Word is hidden, unrevealed, and undivided. It is only an unarticulated name. Man's submission or serenity becomes the “transcription” of that hiddenness into revelation, just as the world is. And man can express it, thus disclosing himself, the world and God. The fullness of submission would be the fullness of remembrance. Both remembrance and forgetting are between power and beauty as two inseparable expressions of oneness. The self that wishes for closeness without submission and fear expresses lust and insatiability, and thus denies that God remembers those who remember Him.Less
Man is in the world and opposite it. Accepting submission, which is the way of existence of that opposite world, means the confirmation of the human nature of the created one. And that nature demands a Creator. One seeks the other. The Creator manifests Himself in the created one who is, thus, the revelation of His Words. Without the created one the Word is hidden, unrevealed, and undivided. It is only an unarticulated name. Man's submission or serenity becomes the “transcription” of that hiddenness into revelation, just as the world is. And man can express it, thus disclosing himself, the world and God. The fullness of submission would be the fullness of remembrance. Both remembrance and forgetting are between power and beauty as two inseparable expressions of oneness. The self that wishes for closeness without submission and fear expresses lust and insatiability, and thus denies that God remembers those who remember Him.
Aditya Malik
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- February 2006
- ISBN:
- 9780195150193
- eISBN:
- 9780199784653
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0195150198.003.0002
- Subject:
- Religion, Hinduism
This chapters examines the categories of performance, remembrance and memory, song and declamatory chant, repetition, dialogue, and reported speech. All of these features build the context for the ...
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This chapters examines the categories of performance, remembrance and memory, song and declamatory chant, repetition, dialogue, and reported speech. All of these features build the context for the communicative act of telling and listening to the oral narrative. Taken together, they also form the framework for the “reason” why the narrative is told, which is to elicit the presence of Devnārāyan. Thus the notion of “text” (both oral and visual) is bound to a larger context. As is not the case of the written text, neither the oral nor the visual narrative exist as self-contained objects.Less
This chapters examines the categories of performance, remembrance and memory, song and declamatory chant, repetition, dialogue, and reported speech. All of these features build the context for the communicative act of telling and listening to the oral narrative. Taken together, they also form the framework for the “reason” why the narrative is told, which is to elicit the presence of Devnārāyan. Thus the notion of “text” (both oral and visual) is bound to a larger context. As is not the case of the written text, neither the oral nor the visual narrative exist as self-contained objects.
George Pattison
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- February 2006
- ISBN:
- 9780199279777
- eISBN:
- 9780191603464
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0199279772.003.0007
- Subject:
- Religion, Theology
Language must be led by what is extra-linguistic. This chapter explores ideas of vision that might inform thinking about God in language. Drawing from Bakhtin and Tillich, from an icon of Andrei ...
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Language must be led by what is extra-linguistic. This chapter explores ideas of vision that might inform thinking about God in language. Drawing from Bakhtin and Tillich, from an icon of Andrei Rublev, and from the film After Life, the idea of a reverse vision is developed; vision that flows back upon itself, as offering one idea of vision that might aid non-technological thinking. In light of P. Florensky’s reflections on truth, this is connected with the notion of liturgy as a site of active remembrance and hope.Less
Language must be led by what is extra-linguistic. This chapter explores ideas of vision that might inform thinking about God in language. Drawing from Bakhtin and Tillich, from an icon of Andrei Rublev, and from the film After Life, the idea of a reverse vision is developed; vision that flows back upon itself, as offering one idea of vision that might aid non-technological thinking. In light of P. Florensky’s reflections on truth, this is connected with the notion of liturgy as a site of active remembrance and hope.
George Pattison
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- February 2006
- ISBN:
- 9780199279777
- eISBN:
- 9780191603464
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0199279772.003.0011
- Subject:
- Religion, Theology
This chapter reiterates the point that thinking about God as a counter-movement to technology is not the same as rejecting technology, but as contributing to the attempt to live humanly with ...
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This chapter reiterates the point that thinking about God as a counter-movement to technology is not the same as rejecting technology, but as contributing to the attempt to live humanly with technology. The idea of God explored in the book is of God as free and giving freedom, as the one who is pure possibility and yet a possible object of active remembrance within the movement of historical time. However, the question remains open whether this God will be identical to the God of Christian faith.Less
This chapter reiterates the point that thinking about God as a counter-movement to technology is not the same as rejecting technology, but as contributing to the attempt to live humanly with technology. The idea of God explored in the book is of God as free and giving freedom, as the one who is pure possibility and yet a possible object of active remembrance within the movement of historical time. However, the question remains open whether this God will be identical to the God of Christian faith.
Howard Eichenbaum, Richard F. Thompson, and John E. Lisman
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- May 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195310443
- eISBN:
- 9780199865321
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195310443.003.0010
- Subject:
- Neuroscience, Behavioral Neuroscience, Molecular and Cellular Systems
This part presents three chapters on the concept of persistence. The first chapter characterizes persistence both by what it does for memory and by what it does not do for our ability to remember. ...
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This part presents three chapters on the concept of persistence. The first chapter characterizes persistence both by what it does for memory and by what it does not do for our ability to remember. The second discusses persistence as a property of memory. The third presents a synthesis of the chapters in this part.Less
This part presents three chapters on the concept of persistence. The first chapter characterizes persistence both by what it does for memory and by what it does not do for our ability to remember. The second discusses persistence as a property of memory. The third presents a synthesis of the chapters in this part.
Andrew P. Yonelinas, Martin A. Conway, Asher Koriat, and Suparna Rajaram
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- May 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195310443
- eISBN:
- 9780199865321
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195310443.003.0012
- Subject:
- Neuroscience, Behavioral Neuroscience, Molecular and Cellular Systems
This part presents four chapters on the concept of remembering. The first chapter discusses the definition and measurement of remembering. The second considers the process and experience of ...
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This part presents four chapters on the concept of remembering. The first chapter discusses the definition and measurement of remembering. The second considers the process and experience of remembering. The third discusses the monitoring and control processes that operate in remembering. The fourth chapter presents a synthesis of the chapters in this part.Less
This part presents four chapters on the concept of remembering. The first chapter discusses the definition and measurement of remembering. The second considers the process and experience of remembering. The third discusses the monitoring and control processes that operate in remembering. The fourth chapter presents a synthesis of the chapters in this part.
Rainer Rother
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780813175416
- eISBN:
- 9780813175447
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813175416.003.0016
- Subject:
- History, Military History
Rainer Rother’s brief chapter introduces part 3, “The Culture of Remembrance of the First World War.” It touches on how different countries have―or have not―commemorated the war, from the period of ...
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Rainer Rother’s brief chapter introduces part 3, “The Culture of Remembrance of the First World War.” It touches on how different countries have―or have not―commemorated the war, from the period of the conflict to the present, adducing some reasons to account for the variations.Less
Rainer Rother’s brief chapter introduces part 3, “The Culture of Remembrance of the First World War.” It touches on how different countries have―or have not―commemorated the war, from the period of the conflict to the present, adducing some reasons to account for the variations.
David Ellis
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199546657
- eISBN:
- 9780191701443
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199546657.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
At the heart of this book is a dramatic account of D. H. Lawrence's desperate struggle against tuberculosis during his last days, and of certain, often bizarre events that followed his death. Around ...
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At the heart of this book is a dramatic account of D. H. Lawrence's desperate struggle against tuberculosis during his last days, and of certain, often bizarre events that followed his death. Around this narrative, the author offers a series of reflections about what it is like to have a disease for which there is no cure, the appeal of alternative medicine, the temptation of suicide for the terminally ill, the diminishing role of religion in modern life, the institution of famous last words, the consequences of dying intestate, and so on. These are clearly not the most immediately appealing of topics, but they have an obvious significance for everyone and the treatment of them here is by no means lugubrious. Lawrence is the main focus throughout, but there are extended references to a number of other famous literary consumptives such as Keats, Katherine Mansfield, Kafka, Chekhov, and George Orwell. Not a long book, it is divided into three parts called ‘Dying’, ‘Death’ and ‘Remembrance’ and is made up of twenty-two short sections. Although it incorporates a good deal of original material, the annotation has been kept deliberately light. The aim has been to combine the drama of events — a good story — with a consideration of matters that must eventually concern us all, and to present the material in a lively and accessible form.Less
At the heart of this book is a dramatic account of D. H. Lawrence's desperate struggle against tuberculosis during his last days, and of certain, often bizarre events that followed his death. Around this narrative, the author offers a series of reflections about what it is like to have a disease for which there is no cure, the appeal of alternative medicine, the temptation of suicide for the terminally ill, the diminishing role of religion in modern life, the institution of famous last words, the consequences of dying intestate, and so on. These are clearly not the most immediately appealing of topics, but they have an obvious significance for everyone and the treatment of them here is by no means lugubrious. Lawrence is the main focus throughout, but there are extended references to a number of other famous literary consumptives such as Keats, Katherine Mansfield, Kafka, Chekhov, and George Orwell. Not a long book, it is divided into three parts called ‘Dying’, ‘Death’ and ‘Remembrance’ and is made up of twenty-two short sections. Although it incorporates a good deal of original material, the annotation has been kept deliberately light. The aim has been to combine the drama of events — a good story — with a consideration of matters that must eventually concern us all, and to present the material in a lively and accessible form.
Jelena Subotic
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781501742408
- eISBN:
- 9781501742415
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9781501742408.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
This book asks why Holocaust memory continues to be so deeply troubled—ignored, appropriated, and obfuscated—throughout Eastern Europe, even though it was in those lands that most of the ...
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This book asks why Holocaust memory continues to be so deeply troubled—ignored, appropriated, and obfuscated—throughout Eastern Europe, even though it was in those lands that most of the extermination campaign occurred. As part of accession to the European Union, the book shows, East European states were required to adopt, participate in, and contribute to the established Western narrative of the Holocaust. This requirement created anxiety and resentment in post-communist states: Holocaust memory replaced communist terror as the dominant narrative in Eastern Europe, focusing instead on predominantly Jewish suffering in World War II. Influencing the European Union's own memory politics and legislation in the process, post-communist states have attempted to reconcile these two memories by pursuing new strategies of Holocaust remembrance. The memory, symbols, and imagery of the Holocaust have been appropriated to represent crimes of communism. This book presents in-depth accounts of Holocaust remembrance practices in Serbia, Croatia, and Lithuania, and extends the discussion to other East European states. It demonstrates how countries of the region used Holocaust remembrance as a political strategy to resolve their insecurities about their identities, about their international status, and about their relationships with other international actors. As the book concludes, Holocaust memory in Eastern Europe has never been about the Holocaust or about the desire to remember the past, whether during communism or in its aftermath. Rather, it has been about managing national identities in a precarious and uncertain world.Less
This book asks why Holocaust memory continues to be so deeply troubled—ignored, appropriated, and obfuscated—throughout Eastern Europe, even though it was in those lands that most of the extermination campaign occurred. As part of accession to the European Union, the book shows, East European states were required to adopt, participate in, and contribute to the established Western narrative of the Holocaust. This requirement created anxiety and resentment in post-communist states: Holocaust memory replaced communist terror as the dominant narrative in Eastern Europe, focusing instead on predominantly Jewish suffering in World War II. Influencing the European Union's own memory politics and legislation in the process, post-communist states have attempted to reconcile these two memories by pursuing new strategies of Holocaust remembrance. The memory, symbols, and imagery of the Holocaust have been appropriated to represent crimes of communism. This book presents in-depth accounts of Holocaust remembrance practices in Serbia, Croatia, and Lithuania, and extends the discussion to other East European states. It demonstrates how countries of the region used Holocaust remembrance as a political strategy to resolve their insecurities about their identities, about their international status, and about their relationships with other international actors. As the book concludes, Holocaust memory in Eastern Europe has never been about the Holocaust or about the desire to remember the past, whether during communism or in its aftermath. Rather, it has been about managing national identities in a precarious and uncertain world.
Mark Rawlinson
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198184560
- eISBN:
- 9780191674303
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198184560.003.0007
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
This chapter examines the critical perspectives on the insularity of Britain at war which were achieved in wartime writings by and about prisoners of war in Europe. Stories of daring escape, rather ...
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This chapter examines the critical perspectives on the insularity of Britain at war which were achieved in wartime writings by and about prisoners of war in Europe. Stories of daring escape, rather than re-educative confinement, were predominant in immediately post-war culture, but it is argued that these forms of remembrance were determined in part by the wartime symbols and concepts.Less
This chapter examines the critical perspectives on the insularity of Britain at war which were achieved in wartime writings by and about prisoners of war in Europe. Stories of daring escape, rather than re-educative confinement, were predominant in immediately post-war culture, but it is argued that these forms of remembrance were determined in part by the wartime symbols and concepts.
Avner Ben-Amos
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198203285
- eISBN:
- 9780191675836
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198203285.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
This book examines the nature and dimensions of the state funerals of modern France, why and how they acquired such a prominent place in the country's political culture, the attempt of the regime to ...
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This book examines the nature and dimensions of the state funerals of modern France, why and how they acquired such a prominent place in the country's political culture, the attempt of the regime to orchestrate its meaning, the resistance to this attempt, and the way the ceremony brings about a complex interplay of remembrance and forgetting. The dual character of the ceremony, a political event and the final rite of passage in a man's life, is the underlying explanation. For the republicans, the ceremony was especially propitious since they were in need of powerful pedagogical means through which they would be able to reach the masses. The grand burial ceremonies were financed and organized by the Third Republic. This book considers the emergence of republican state funerals during the French Revolution, the state funerals of kings and emperors, subversive and revolutionary funerals, civil funerals, the state funeral as civic festival, and the funerals of politicians, soldiers and colonizers, scientists, writers, and musicians.Less
This book examines the nature and dimensions of the state funerals of modern France, why and how they acquired such a prominent place in the country's political culture, the attempt of the regime to orchestrate its meaning, the resistance to this attempt, and the way the ceremony brings about a complex interplay of remembrance and forgetting. The dual character of the ceremony, a political event and the final rite of passage in a man's life, is the underlying explanation. For the republicans, the ceremony was especially propitious since they were in need of powerful pedagogical means through which they would be able to reach the masses. The grand burial ceremonies were financed and organized by the Third Republic. This book considers the emergence of republican state funerals during the French Revolution, the state funerals of kings and emperors, subversive and revolutionary funerals, civil funerals, the state funeral as civic festival, and the funerals of politicians, soldiers and colonizers, scientists, writers, and musicians.
Ludmilla Jordanova
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780197264065
- eISBN:
- 9780191734496
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197264065.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
This chapter reflects critically on ‘marking time’ — the complex and interlinked notions of remembrance, celebration, honouring, and commemoration. It unpacks some of the assumptions about ...
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This chapter reflects critically on ‘marking time’ — the complex and interlinked notions of remembrance, celebration, honouring, and commemoration. It unpacks some of the assumptions about periodization and the nature of historical agency bound up with commemoration, and tackles the difficult notions of ‘identification’ and ‘honouring’. It exhorts professional historians to subject all these to critical analysis when engaging with public history.Less
This chapter reflects critically on ‘marking time’ — the complex and interlinked notions of remembrance, celebration, honouring, and commemoration. It unpacks some of the assumptions about periodization and the nature of historical agency bound up with commemoration, and tackles the difficult notions of ‘identification’ and ‘honouring’. It exhorts professional historians to subject all these to critical analysis when engaging with public history.
Carnley Peter
- Published in print:
- 1993
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198267560
- eISBN:
- 9780191683299
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198267560.003.0008
- Subject:
- Religion, Theology
This chapter discusses the transferring of the image of Christ within the Christian community by remembering and acknowledging His living presence. At its core is the faith and remembrance of Jesus ...
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This chapter discusses the transferring of the image of Christ within the Christian community by remembering and acknowledging His living presence. At its core is the faith and remembrance of Jesus not only as a memory, but as Christus praesens. In the chapter the concepts of remembering Jesus and knowing Christ are defined and distinguished. Although both refer to knowledge of Christ, the two are nonetheless different and distinct. The Jesus who is remembered is the Jesus as he was in the days of His flesh, from birth to death on the cross. This knowledge is a kind of knowledge by description rather than by acquaintance. Knowing Jesus, on the other hand, refers to the raised Christ, who is known by acquaintance in the present. It is the Spirit of Jesus in the here and now with which faith is identified and thus known.Less
This chapter discusses the transferring of the image of Christ within the Christian community by remembering and acknowledging His living presence. At its core is the faith and remembrance of Jesus not only as a memory, but as Christus praesens. In the chapter the concepts of remembering Jesus and knowing Christ are defined and distinguished. Although both refer to knowledge of Christ, the two are nonetheless different and distinct. The Jesus who is remembered is the Jesus as he was in the days of His flesh, from birth to death on the cross. This knowledge is a kind of knowledge by description rather than by acquaintance. Knowing Jesus, on the other hand, refers to the raised Christ, who is known by acquaintance in the present. It is the Spirit of Jesus in the here and now with which faith is identified and thus known.
Stig Förster
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780813175416
- eISBN:
- 9780813175447
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813175416.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, Military History
Stig Förster introduces the subjects and themes of the essays in part 1, “The Battles on the Eastern Front, 1914–1915,” highlighting the chapters’ significance in presenting scholarly appraisal of ...
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Stig Förster introduces the subjects and themes of the essays in part 1, “The Battles on the Eastern Front, 1914–1915,” highlighting the chapters’ significance in presenting scholarly appraisal of the eastern front in World War I.Less
Stig Förster introduces the subjects and themes of the essays in part 1, “The Battles on the Eastern Front, 1914–1915,” highlighting the chapters’ significance in presenting scholarly appraisal of the eastern front in World War I.
