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1 online resource (368 pages) : illustrations (some color), map |
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text file |
| Contents |
Introduction: The performance of the past : memory, history, identity / Jay Winter -- Re-framing memory : beween individual and collective forms of constructing the past / Aleida Assmann -- Repetitive structures in language and history / Reinhard Koselleck -- Unstuck in time, or, The sudden presence of the past / Chris Lorenz -- Co-memoration : performing the past / Peter Burke -- 'Indelible memories' : the tattooed body as theatre of memory / Jane Caplan -- Incongruous images : 'before, during, and after' the Holocaust / Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer -- Radio Clandestina : from oral history to the theatre / Alessandro Portelli -- Music and memory in Mozart's Zauberflote / Jan Assmann -- The many afterlives of Ivanhoe / Ann Rigney -- Novels and their readers, memories and their social frameworks / Joep Leerssen -- Indigestible images : on the ethics and limits of representation / Frank Van Vree -- 'In these days of convulsive political change' : discourse and display in the revolutionary museum, 1793-1815 / Frans Grijzenout -- Restitution as a means of remembrance: evocations of the recent past in the Czech Republic and in Poland after 1989 / Stanislaw Tyszka -- European identity and the politics of remembrance / Chiara Bottici. |
| Summary |
Performing the Past is an investigation of the multiple social and culture practices through which Europeans have negotiated the space between their history and their memory over the past 200 years. In museums, in opera houses, in the streets, in the schools, in theatres, in films, on the internet and beyond, narratives about the past circulate today at a dizzying speed. Producing and selling them is big business; if the past is indeed a foreign country, there are tens of thousands of tourist agents, guides, and pundits around to help us on our way, for a fee, to be sure. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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History -- Philosophy.
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History -- Philosophy. |
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Collective memory -- Europe.
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Collective memory. |
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Europe. |
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Europe -- History.
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History. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Tilmans, Karin.
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Vree, Frank van.
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Winter, J. M.
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Memory, history, and identity in modern Europe |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Performing the past. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, ©2010 9789048512027 (OCoLC)700706915 |
| ISBN |
9789048512027 (electronic book) |
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9048512026 (electronic book) |
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9789089642059 |
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9089642056 |
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1282985248 |
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9781282985247 |
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