Memory in the Twenty-First Century
This book maps and analyses the changing state of memory at the start of the twenty-first century in essays written by scientists, scholars and writers. It recontextualises memory by investigating the impact of new conditions such as the digital revolution, climate change and an ageing population on our world.
| ISBN: | 9781137520579 |
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Seitenzahl: | 400 |
| Produktart: | Gebunden |
| Herausgeber: | Groes, Sebastian |
| Verlag: | Palgrave Macmillan UK |
| Veröffentlicht: | 02.01.2016 |
| Untertitel: | New Critical Perspectives from the Arts, Humanities, and Sciences |
| Schlagworte: | Ian McEwan Marcel Proust Memory autism cognition cognitive offloading contemporary fiction dementia digital revolution science |
Sebastian Groes is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Roehampton University, UK. He specialises in modernist and contemporary fiction, has written on authors including Ian McEwan and Kazuo Ishiguro, and published The Making of London. He is the Principal Investigator of the AHRC and Wellcome Trust-funded The Memory Network.