Modern Memory

## **Methodologies of Memory**

Frances
A. Yates, *The Art of Memory* (1966)

St.
Augustine, *The Confessions of St.*
Augustine *(397-400 AD)*

Sigmund
Freud, “Mourning and Melancholia,” (1917) “Screen Memories,” (1899)
“Remembering, Repeating, Working-Through,” (1914) “Beyond the Pleasure
Principle” (1920) “A Note upon the Mystic Writing Pad” (1925), *Moses and Monotheism* (1939), “The
Uncanny” (1919)

Heidigger*, Being and Time* (1927)

Gaston
Bachelard, *The Poetics of Space* (1958)

Charles
Baudelaire, “The Painter of Modern Life” (1856)

## **Memory and (the Making/Re-Making of) the Self**

Virginia
Woolf, *Moments of Being*
(1972/1907-1936)

Nabokov,
*Speak, Memory* (1951)

H.D.,
*The Gift* (1941-1943)

Walter
Benjamin, *Berlin Childhood Around 1900*
(1938)

Robert
Lowell, *Life Studies* (1959)

Elizabeth
Bishop, *Prose, Poems*

Lyn
Hejinian, *My Life* (1987)

Orhan
Pamuk, *Istanbul: Memories and the City* (2006)

## **Proust**

Marcel
Proust, *Remembrance of Things Past*
(1913-1927)

Henri
Bergson, *Matter and Memory* (1896)

Walter
Benjamin, “On the Image of Proust” (1929-1934)

Samuel
Beckett, *Proust* (1930)

## **Elegy**

Ben
Jonson, “To the Memory of My Beloved the Author, Mr. William Shakespeare”

John
Milton, “On Shakespeare”

Anne
Carson, *Nox* (2009)

Ted
Hughes, *Birthday Letters* (1998)

Susan
Howe, *That This* (2011)

Roland
Barthes, *Mourning Diary* (1977-1979/2010)

Ramazani,
*Poetry of Mourning: The Modern Elegy from*
Hardy to Heaney *(1994)*

## **History, Culture, and Identity**

Friedrich
Nietzsche, *On the Uses and Disadvantages*
of History for Life *(1874)*

Walter
Benjamin, “The Storyteller,” “Theses on the Philosophy of History” (1936)

Maurice
Halbwachs*, On Collective Memory* (1992)

Maurice
Blanchot, *The Writing of the Disaster*
(1980)

Adrienne
Rich “Resisting Amnesia:  History and
Personal Life” (1986)

Pierre
Nora, *Lieux de memoire (*“Between
Memory and History”) (1989)

Jacques
Derrida, *Memoires: for Paul de Man*
(1989)*, “*On Forgiveness” (2002)

Svetlana
Boym, *The Future of Nostalgia* (2001)

Patrick
H. Hutton, *History as an Art of Memory*
(1993)

Marita
Sturken, *Tangled Memories: The Vietnam*
War, the AIDS Epidemic, and the Politics of Remembering *(1997)*

Seamus
O’Malley, *Making History New: Modernism*
and Historical Narrative *(2014)*

== **Representing/Documenting Memory**
(Photography/Film/Documentary poetics) ==
Roland
Barthes, *Camera Lucida* (1980)

Susan
Sontag, *On Photography* (1977)

Susan
Sontag, *Regarding the Suffering of Others*
(2003)

Walter
Benjamin, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” (1936)

James
Agee & Walker Evans, *Let Us Now*
Praise Famous Men *(1941)*

Muriel
Rukeyser, *Book of the Dead* (1938)

CD
Wright, *One Big Self* (2007)

Inger
Christensen, *alphabet* (1981/2001)

Juliana
Spahr, *This Connection of Everyone with*
Lungs *(2005)*

Maggie
Nelson, *The Red Parts: A Memoir*
(2007)

Chris
Marker, *La Jetee*  (1962), *Remembrance*
of Things to Come *(2001)*

Susan
Howe, *Sorting Facts, or Nineteen Ways of*
Looking at Marker *(2013)*

## **Archive Fever/Amnesia/Forgetting**

Jacques
Derrida, *Archive Fever* (1995)

Andreas
Huyssen, *Twilight Memories: Marking Time*
in a Culture of Amnesia *(1995)*

Marc
Auge, *Oblivion* (2004)

Borges,
“Funes, His Memory,” (1944/1954) “Library of Babel” (1941/1962) “El Aleph”
(1949/1874)

Beckett,
*Malone Dies, The Unnamable*
(1956-1958)

Gabriel
García Márquez, *100 Years of Solitude*
(1967)

Adam
Phillips, *On Flirtation* (“Freud and
the Uses of Forgetting”) (1996)

## **Epic, Myth**

*Beowulf* (8th-11th cent.)

Homer, *The Iliad* (760–710 BC)

Nathaniel
Mackey *Splay Anthem* (2006)

T.S.
Eliot *The Waste Land* (1922)

H.D.,
*Helen in Egypt* (1952-1954)

Alice
Notley, *The Descent of Alette* (1996)

James
George Frazer, *The Golden Bough*
(1890)

## **Trauma, War, Holocaust and Post-Memory**

Yosif
Hayim Yerushalmi, *Zakhor* (1982)

Friedländer,
Saul. *Memory, History, and the Extermination of the Jews of Europe* (1993)

LaCapra, Dominic. *History & Memory After Auschwitz* (1998)

Marianne
Hirsch, *Family Frames: Photography,*
Narrative and Postmemory *(1997)*,

*The*
Generation of Post-Memory: Writing and Visual Culture After the Holocaust *(2013)*

S.
Lillian Kremer, *Women’s Holocaust*
Writing: Memory and Imagination *(1999)*

James
E. Young, *Writing and Rewriting the*
Holocaust *(1990)*

*The*
Texture of Memory *(1993)*

“Toward a Received History of the Holocaust”
(1997)

*At*
Memory’s Edge *(2009)*

Jacques
Derrida, *Shibboleth for Paul Celan/Sovereignties*
in Question: The Poetics of Paul Celan *(1986/2005)*

Shoshana
Felman, Dori Laub, *Testimony: Crises of*
Witnessing in Literature, Psychoanalysis and History *(1992)*

Cathy
Caruth *Unclaimed Experience: Trauma,*
Narrative, History *(1996)*

Paul
Fussell, *The Great War and Modern Memory*
(1975)

Georgio
Agamben, *Remnants of Auschwitz: The*
Witness and the Archive *(2002)*

Paul
Celan, Poems

Sylvia
Plath, Poems

Charles
Reznikoff, *Holocaust* (1975)

Carolyn
Forche, *Against Forgetting: Twentieth*
Century Poetry of Witness *(1993)*

Art
Spiegelman, *Maus I: A Survivor’s Tale: My*
Father Bleeds History, *and* Maus II:
And Here My Troubles Began *(1986)*

David
Grossman, *See Under: Love* (1989/1991)

W.G.
Sebald, *Austerlitz* (2001)*, Emigrants* (1992)

Virginia
Woolf, *Three Guineas* (1938)

Alain
Resnais, *Nuit et Brouillard/Night and Fog*
(1955)

Claude
Lanzmann, *Shoah* (1985)

## **More Fiction**

Virginia
Woolf*, Mrs. Dalloway* (1925)

*To*
the Lighthouse *(1927)*

*Orlando* (1928)

*The Waves* (1931)

William
Faulkner, *The Sound and the Fury*
(1929)

Toni
Morrison, *Beloved* (1987)

Jean
Toomer, *Cane* (1923)

## **More Poetry**

Sidney,
“The Defence of Poesy” (1595)

Shakespeare
sonnets (18, 55, 77, 81, 122, 59)

William
Wordsworth *The Prelude* (1888)

Maggie
Nelson, *Bluets* (2009)

Raul
Zurita, *Song for His Disappeared Love*
(2010), *Purgatory* (2009)

== (Resources:
Other: Not on List: but Helpfuls and Maybes) ==
Michael
Rossington, Anne Whitehead, *Theories of*
Memory: A Reader *(2007)*

David
Farrell Krell, *Of Memory, Reminiscence,*
and Writing: On the Verge *(1990)*

*Anatomy of memory : an anthology* / edited by James McConkey.

Paul
Riceour, *Memory, History, Forgetting* (2004)

Gabrielle
McEntire, *Modernism, Memory, and Desire:*
T.S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf *(2008)*

Freud,
“A disturbance of memory on the acropolis” (1937)

Uta
Gossman, *Poetic Memory: The Forgotten*
Self in Plath, Howe, Hinsey, and Glück

David
Lowenthal, “Nostalgia Tells it like it wasn’t” from *Imagined Past: History and Nostalgia*

Eve
Kosovsky Sedgwick, *Epistemology of the*
Closet

Ender,
*Architexts of Memory* (Woolf, George
Eliot, Proust, etc.)