Strategies of remembrance
Subtitle: from Pindar to Hölderlin
By: edited by Lucie Doležalová
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9781443812610
Subjects: Immortality; Memory; Memory in literature; Philosophy; History; Identity (Philosophical concept); Identity (Psychology)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Memory and immortality / Tamás Visi -- What kind of episodes are stored in episodic memory? On the concept of memory in cognitive science / Ivan M. Havel -- Memory and forgetting in Pindar's seventh Isthmian / Peter Agócs -- Memory and language : Augustine's analysis of memory in Confession X / Lenka Karfíková -- Heloise's literary self-fashioning and the Epistolae duorum amantium /  Sylvain Piron -- Constructing the memory of Alexander in the early eighth century / Michael W. Herren -- Populus meus captivus ductus est : on the Polish Franciscan's mnemonic treatise from the fifteenth century / Rafał Wójcik -- Raising the dead to raise the money for the living / Zsuzsanna Kiséry --  Reminding and remembering : two concepts of memory in the ninth-century Bulgarian hymnography of repentance / Regina Koycheva -- Memorem quidem se esse, sed exprimere nullo modo posse quod viderat : Hugh of St. Victor and the recollections of a medieval suicide / Csaba Németh -- The memory of late medieval thieves / Gerhard Jaritz -- Hölderlin on memory / Michal Ajvaz.