Ars Memoriae Reading Group | Session 1

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Mondays of week 2,4,6 and 8, 5.30pm

Seminar Room 2, Wolfson College

All Welcome

 

Reading List – Hilary Term 2024

 

Monday, January 22 (Week 2)

Texts

  • Ogawa, Yōko. The Memory Police. Translated by Stephen Snyder, Vintage, 2020.

Note: In Week 2, we will discuss Chapters 1 - 14.

  • Erll, Astrid. Memory in Culture. Translated by Sara B. Young, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Note: We will discuss Chapters 1 & 2.

  • Hirsch, Marianne. “The Generation of Postmemory.” Poetics Today, vol. 29, no. 1, 2008, pp. 103 - 28,
  • Passerini, Luisa. “Memories Between Silence and Oblivion.” Contested Pasts: The Politics of Memory, edited by Katharine Hodgkin and Susannah Radstone, Routledge, 2003, pp. 238 - 254.

Painting

  • Salvador Dali, “The Persistence of Memory.”

     

All readings can be found here.

 

Convenors:

Shivani Arulalan Pillai, DPhil Candidate (Faculty of English)

Malavika P Pillai, DPhil Candidate (Faculty of English)

Smriti Verma, DPhil Candidate (Faculty of English)

 

Email: ars.memoriae.oxford@gmail.com

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Ars Memoriae Reading Group