Memory in the twenty-first century : new critical perspectives from the arts, humanities, and sciences / edited by Sebastian Groes (Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Roehampton, UK).

Memory in the 21st century

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

xxi, 404 pages : black and white illustrations ; 23 cm

Machine generated contents note: pt. I Metaphors of Memory -- Introduction to Part I / Sebastian Groes -- 1.Metaphors of Memory: From the Classical World to Modernity / Corin Depper -- 2.Proust, the Madeleine and Memory / Barry C. Smith -- 3.Proust Recalled: A Psychological Revisiting of That Madeleine Memory Moment / E. Leigh Gibson -- 4.The Persistence of Surrealism: Memory, Dreams and the Dead / Jeannette Baxter -- 5.The Brain Observatory and the Imaginary Media of Memory Research / Flora Lysen -- 6.Memory and the Fictional Imagination: Creating Memories / Peter Childs -- 7.Misled by Metaphor / Nicholas Carr -- 8.Calling Gaia: World Brains and Global Memory / Stephan Besser -- pt. II Memory in the Digital Age -- Introduction to Part II / Sebastian Groes -- 9.What's in a Brain? / Will Self -- 10.Will Self and His Inner Seahorse / Hugo J. Spiers -- 11.Navigational Aids in Neuropsychological Rehabilitation / Ineke van der Ham -- 12.Living Digitally / Wendy Moncur -- 13.Death and Memory in the Twenty-First Century / Stacey Pitsillides -- 14.The Oceanic Literary Reading Mind: An Impression / Michael Burke -- 15.Memory and the Reading Substrate / Adriaan van der Weel -- 16.Memory, Materiality and the Ethics of Reading in the Digital Age / Sebastian Groes -- pt. III Ecologies of Memory -- Introduction to Part III / Sebastian Groes -- 17.Time That Is Intolerant / Claire Colebrook -- 18.Climate Change and Memory / Mike Hulme -- 19.Memories of Snow: Nostalgia, Amnesia, Re-Reading / Greg Garrard -- 20.Writing Climate Change / Maggie Gee -- 21.Against Nostalgia: Climate Change Art and Memory / Sebastian Groes -- pt. IV Memory and the Future -- Introduction to Part IV / Sebastian Groes -- 22.The Trace of the Future / Mark Currie -- 23.Simulation and the Evolution of Thought / Joanna J. Bryson -- 24.Imaginative Anticipation: Rethinking Memory for Alternative Futures / Jessica Bland -- 25.Memory Is No Longer What It Used to Be / Patricia Pisters -- 26.Ẁe Can Remember It, Funes, Wholesale': Borges, Total Recall and the Logic of Memory / Adam Roberts -- 27.Remembering without Stored Contents: A Philosophical Reflection on Memory / Daniel D. Hutto -- pt. V Forgetting -- Introduction to Part V / Nick Lavery -- 28.Remembering / John T. Wixted -- 29.Directed Forgetting / Karen R. Brandt -- 30.Remembrance in the Twenty-First Century / Peter Childs -- 31.The Body and the Page in Poetry Readings as Remembrance of Composition / Holly Pester -- 32.Our Plastic Brain: Remembering and Forgetting Art / Heather H. Yeung -- 33.Amnesia and Identity in Contemporary Literature / Jason Tougaw -- 34.Amnesia in Young Adult Fiction / Alison Waller -- 35.Remembering Responsibly / Heather H. Yeung -- pt. VI Twenty-First Century Subjectivities -- Introduction to Part VI / Nick Lavery -- 36.Losing the Self? Subjectivity in the Digital Age / Claire Colebrook -- 37.Memory and Voices: Challenging Psychiatric Diagnosis through the Novel / Patricia Waugh -- 38.Rereading the Self / Alison Waller -- 39.Neuroscience and Posthuman Memory / Robert Pepperell -- 40.The Confabulation of Self / Joanna J. Bryson -- 41.Malingering and Memory / Neander Abreu -- 42.Trauma and the Truth / Martijn Meeter.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 364-387) and index.