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The Mnemonic Imagination

Remembering as Creative Practice

Palgrave Macmillan

Part of the book series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies (PMMS)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
  2. An Outline of What Lies Ahead

    • Emily Keightley, Michael Pickering
    Pages 1-13
  3. Memory and Experience

    • Emily Keightley, Michael Pickering
    Pages 14-42
  4. The Mnemonic Imagination

    • Emily Keightley, Michael Pickering
    Pages 43-80
  5. Personal and Popular Memory

    • Emily Keightley, Michael Pickering
    Pages 81-111
  6. The Reclamation of Nostalgia

    • Emily Keightley, Michael Pickering
    Pages 112-138
  7. The Foreclosure of Mnemonic Imagining

    • Emily Keightley, Michael Pickering
    Pages 139-164
  8. Creative Memory and Painful Pasts

    • Emily Keightley, Michael Pickering
    Pages 165-193
  9. Coda

    • Emily Keightley, Michael Pickering
    Pages 194-205
  10. Back Matter

    Pages 206-239

About this book

An exploration of some of the key theoretical challenges and conceptual issues facing the emergent field of memory studies, from the relationship between experience and memory to the commercial exploitation of nostalgia, using the key concept of the mnemonic imagination.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Loughborough University, UK

    Emily Keightley, Michael Pickering

About the authors

EMILY KEIGHTLEY is Lecturer in Communication and Media Studies at Loughborough University, UK. She has published her research on time, memory and everyday life in a number of international journals. She is the editor of Time, Media and Modernity and is currently co-editing Research Methods for Memory Studies with Michael Pickering. She is also Assistant Editor of Media, Culture and Society.
MICHAEL PICKERING is Professor of Media and Cultural Analysis at Loughborough University, UK. He has published in the areas of social and cultural history, the sociology of art and culture, and media and communication studies. His most recent books include Researching Communications (2007); Blackface Minstrelsy in Britain (2008); Research Methods for Cultural Studies (2008); and Popular Culture, a four-volume edited collection (2010).

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Softcover Book USD 139.99
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