The Mnemonic Imagination: Remembering as Creative Practice

The concluding chapter discusses how the mnemonic imagination can help a person come to terms with painful pasts, whether experienced personally or a second-hand experience shared through cultural memory. Keightley and Pickering's research on the interplay of imagination and memory should play...

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Published inJournal of American culture (Malden, Mass.) Vol. 36; no. 4; p. 402
Main Author Siburt, James Eric
Format Book Review
LanguageEnglish
Published Malden Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.12.2013
Subjects
Associative processes
Collective memory
Creativity
Cultural heritage
Memory
Nostalgia
Research subjects
Rowling, J K
New York
United States > US
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ISSN1542-7331
1542-734X
DOI10.1111/jacc.12093

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Summary:The concluding chapter discusses how the mnemonic imagination can help a person come to terms with painful pasts, whether experienced personally or a second-hand experience shared through cultural memory. Keightley and Pickering's research on the interplay of imagination and memory should play a significant role in any field of study in which human subjects are interviewed or where memories of past events are being recalled, which is to say the majority of research disciplines.
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ISSN:1542-7331
1542-734X
DOI:10.1111/jacc.12093