On History and Memory in Arab Literature and Western Poetics
| Author | : Bootheina Majoul |
| Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 278 |
| Release | : 2020-10-06 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9781527560420 |
| ISBN-13 | : 1527560422 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (422 Downloads) |
Download or read book On History and Memory in Arab Literature and Western Poetics written by Bootheina Majoul and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Texts act like receptacles for an ever-present remembered past, or what the French philosopher Paul Ricœur calls “the present representation of an absent thing”. They might embody an efficient remedy to forgetting but could also become a vivid testimony for exorcised traumas. This volume focuses on Ricœur’s phenomenology of memory, epistemology of history, and hermeneutics of forgetting. A special emphasis is laid on the dissension between individual and collective institutional memory.
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