78904 - SEMIOTICS OF MEMORY (1) (LM)

Conoscenze e abilità da conseguire

At the end of the course the student will have achieved the necessary tools to critically elaborate the main themes and aspects relating to cultural memory's problems in a semiotic perspective.

Testi/Bibliografia

Mandatory Reading Materials

Second week  -  April 11

Assmann Jan, "Communicative and Cultural Memory" , in Astrid Erll, Ansgar Nünning (eds.), Cultural Memory Studies. An International and Interdisciplinary Handbook, Berlin, New York 2008, S. 109-118

Pierre Nora "Between Memory and History: Les Lieux de Mémoire", Representations, No. 26, Special Issue: Memory and Counter-Memory. (Spring, 1989), pp. 7-24.

April 12

Eco Umberto, "An Ars Oblivionalis? Forget it!", PMLA, Vol.103,n.3,1988, 254-261.

Connerton Paul "Seven types of forgetting" Memory Studies 2008; 1; 59

 

Third week - April 18-20

Arnold-de Simine, S. (2013), Mediating Memory in the Museum. Trauma, Empathy, Nostalgia, Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan. I primi 6 capitoli (first 43 pages).

Patrizia Violi (2014), "Spectacularizing trauma: the Experientialist Visitor of memory Museum", in VS 119.

Francesco Mazzucchelli "of Bridges and Borders:Post-War urban Geographies in Mostar"

 

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GeneraL Bibliography

Alexander, J. (2003), The Meaning of Social Life. A cultural Sociology, Oxford: Oxford University Press

Alexander, J. - Eyerman, R. et al. (2004), Cultural Trauma and Collective Identities, Berkeley: University of Californa Press.

Andermann, J. - Arnold-de-Simine S. (2012) “Introduction. Memory, Community and the New Museum”, in Theory, Culture & Society, vol.29 (1): 3-13.

Andermann, J. (2012), “Returning to the Site of Horror. On the Reclaiming of Clandestine Concentration Camps in Argentina, Theory, Culture & Society, 29 (1): 76-98

Arnold-de Simine, S. (2013), Mediating Memory in the Museum. Trauma, Empathy, Nostalgia, Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan.

Assman A., (2004) “Four Formats of Memory: From Individual to Collective Constructions of the Past”, in C. Emden and D. Midgley (eds.), Cultural Memory and Historical Consciousness in the German-Speaking World since 1500, Oxford: Peter Lang, pp.19-37.

Buelens, G. - Durrant, S. - Eaglestone, R. (eds.), (2014) The Future of Trauma Theory. Contemporary Literary and Cultural Criticism, London and New York: Routledge.

Connerton P, (2009), How Modernity Forgets, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Erll A. (2011) Memory in Culture, Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan

Erlls A, Nunning A., Young S., eds, 2008, Cultural Memory Studies: an International and Interdisciplinary handbook, Berlin: de Gruyter

Radstone S., ed 2010, Memory, Histories, Theories, Debate, (capitoli da definire)

Mazzucchelli F. (2013) “(Post-) "Urbicide. Reconstruction and Ideology in Former Yugoslavia Cities”, Gonçalves Miranda, R.; Zullo, F. (eds.), Post-Conflict Reconstructions. Re-Mapping and Reconciliations, Nottingham, CCCP.

Mazzucchelli F. (2015) “Of bridges and borders: post-war urban geographies in Mostar”, in Couroucli, M.; Marinov, T. (eds.), Balkan Heritages. Negotiating History and Culture, Farnham: Ashgate.

Salerno D., (in press) "Memorialising boat tragedies in the Mediterranean: the case of the Kater I Rades" in Lynda Mannik, ed. Migration by Boat: discourses of trauma, exclusion and survival, Berghahn Books, New York.

van der Larse R., Mazzucchelli F., Rejnen C., eds. (2014), "Traces of Terror, Signs of Trauma. Practices of representation of collective memories in space in contemporary Europe", Special issue of VS, 119.

Violi P., (2012), “Trauma Site Museums and Politics of Memory. Tuol Sleng, Villa Grimaldi and Bologna Ustica Musuem”, in Theory, Culture & Society, vol.29 (1): 36-75.

Violi (2014), "Spectacularizing trauma: the Experientialist Visitor of memory Museum", in VS 119.

Orario di ricevimento

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