The Work of Memory
Subtitle: New Directions in the Study of German Society and Culture
Contributors: Alon Confino (Editor); Peter Fritzsche (Editor)
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: April 8, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780252027178
Subjects: History; Germany - History; History Of Civilization And Culture (General); History - General History; History: World; Germany; Europe - Germany; History / Germany; Historiography; Civilization; Collective memory; Memorials; Memory; National socialism; Psychological aspects; Social aspects
First sentence: In the classical world, memory was an aspect of rhetoric, which treatises divided into its five fundamentals: inventio, dispositio, elocutio, memoria, and pronuntiatio.