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(2012) English and American studies, Stuttgart, Metzler.
Cultural memory is a theoretical perspective which links English and American Studies closely to interdisciplinary research in the humanities and social sciences. Memory studies is a broad convergence field, with contributions from cultural history, social psychology, media studies, political philosophy, and comparative literature. With the term "cultural memory," scholars describe all those processes of a biological, medial, or social nature which relate past and present (and future) in socio-cultural contexts. Cultural memory entails remembering and forgetting. It has an individual and a collective side, which are, however, closely interrelated (see Erll, Memory in Culture).
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-476-00406-2_15
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Erll, A. (2012)., Cultural memory, in M. Middeke, T. Müller, C. Wald & H. Zapf (eds.), English and American studies, Stuttgart, Metzler, pp. 238-242.
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