International round table “Literature and/as Memory”

How does literature “remember”? Are memory and “literariness” related? Where and how do the respective interests of memory studies and of literary studies intersect?

How do extra-literary patterns of individual and collective experience imprint and/or manifest themselves in literary texts? How are cultural norms/values reproduced and transformed through the writing and reading of literary texts? How do memory studies respond to literature’s increasing media “adaptability”?

Key presenter:

Astrid Erll (Professor of English Literature and Culture, Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main) Literature as a Medium of Cultural Memory.

Discussants:

Andrey Logutov (MSU) Narrative Memory vs Lyrical Memory (Duality in the Mode of Engaging Cultural Material)

Ivan Delazari (HSE Spb) Interplay of Reality and Fiction in the Embodied Reader’s Memory

Polina Rybina (MSU) Condensation Recondensed: Memory Regimes in Film Adaptations

Victoria Malkina (RSUH, Moscow) Collective Texts and Postmemory (Barbara Lebow’s Play A Shayne Maidel)

Diane Nemec-Ignashev (Carleton College/MSU)

Snezhana Aleynikova (RSUH, Moscow)

Tatiana Venediktova (MSU) “Distinctly I remember”: reflexive memory and sharing in a creative act

Abstracts

A chapter from Astrid Erll’s book Memory in Culture (2011)