Theories of Memory: a Reader

Commendation Quotes:"This reader does a superb job in defining and presenting some of the most interesting work currently being done on the forms and the uses of personal and historical memory." -- John Frow, University of MelbourneCommendation Quotes:"This collection provides an extensive historical and theoretical framework for the study of memory. It traces the exciting history of the philosophical problematisation of memory as well as its insistent and urgent demand to be recognized and defined." -- Cathy Caruth, Emory UniversityCommendation Quotes: This collection provides an extensive historical and theoretical framework for the study of memory. It traces the exciting history of the philosophical problematisation of memory as well as its insistent and urgent demand to be recognized and defined. Commendation Quotes: This reader does a superb job in defining and presenting some of the most interesting work currently being done on the forms and the uses of personal and historical memory. Biographical Note: Michael Rossington and Anne Whitehead are senior lecturers in English literature at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.; First published in the UK by Edinburgh University Press, 2007.; Avail. in cloth. Contributor Bio:  Rossington, Michael Susanne Schmid has taught at the universities FU Berlin, Frankfurt am Main, Princeton, Paderborn, Salford and Regensburg. She is the author of Shelley's German Afterlives 1814 - 2000 (Palgrave, 2007).