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Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
It is broadly accepted that "terrorizing" images are often instrumentalized in periods of conflict to serve political interests. This volume proposes that paying attention to how images of trauma and conflict are described in literary texts, i.e. to the rhetorical practice known as "ekphrasis", is crucial to our understanding of how such images work. The volume's contributors discuss verbal images of trauma and terror in literary texts both from a...
Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
Dynamics, Mediation, Mobilization provides an accessible overview of cultural memory studies, a field substantially shaped by Ann Rigney. In more than sixty short chapters, leading and emerging scholars in the field present key concepts for the study of cultural memory - from 'divided narratives' to 'the platformization of memory' and 'the memory of activism'. The volume includes voices from literary studies, media studies, history, sociology, political...