The Place of Memory and Memory of Place

edited by

Olena Lytovka

IRF Press

Warsaw 2016

Copyright © 2016 by IRF Press

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The Place of Memory and Memory of Place

Edited by Olena Lytovka

This publication is peer reviewed

ISBN: 978-83-943632-0-8

IRF Press

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Contents

Introduction

Olena Lytovka

Part 1. Spatiotemporal (Non)Linearity

A Plea for Spatiality in Thinking Memory. Non-linear Time and Sigmund Freud’s Taste for Topography

Giacomo Croci

Attracted by the Future, Conditioned by the Past, Shaped by Our Decisions … That’s Where a Place Is

Sara Schinco, Massimo Schinco

Part 2. Architectural Memory

Architectural Memory and “Formless Architecture”

Funda Tan Yilmaz, Seda Buğra Tekİnalp

Sirkeci Train Station as a Place of Memory

Seda Buğra Tekİnalp, Funda Tan Yilmaz

An Investigation into Place Attachment and the Memorability of Persian Gardens

Mohamad Zakeri, Hasti Khalili, Ali Derafshi, Fatemeh Parhoodeh

Part 3. Historic Sites

Ancient Time and Symbols of Ceremony in the American Southwest

Deborah Kelley-Galin

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The Concept of Space in the Illustrations of Chinese Local Gazetteers Qi Luo

“Vladislav Varnenchik” Park Museum in Varna as a Place of MemoryVera Boneva

Part 4. Cyberspace and Talking Places

Technologies of Memory: Cyberplace and the Space of MemoryCarlo Comanducci

Places of Digital Media Work: Memory, Embodiment and the InterfaceSelim Gökçe Atıcı

“There’s Nothing to See Here”. Rebuilding Memories of Place through Personal Narratives Zoe Roland

Part 5. Collective (Non-)Memories

The Remembering of Positive Experiences by Survivors of Holocaust Concentration CampsAnthony Bellen

Interpreting Dictatorial Heritage through Victims and Heroes’ Personal Stories and Support Informative Media in BerlinRoberta Caldas

Part 6. Literary Accounts of Spatio-Temporal Dialectics

Modernist American Fiction: Trauma, Healing and Hope through MemorySilvia Ammary

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Landscape and Mind in the Last Act of Peer Gynt. The Revealing of a Catastrophe

Marit Aalen, Anders Zachrisson

London Below as the World of Things Lost and Forgotten. The Representation of Memories as Imprinted in the Cityscape Portrayed in Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere

Julita Kula

Historical and Personal Memory in Yannis Ritsos’s Italian Triptych

Amanda Skamagka

Chang-rae Lee’s Novels: Asian Immigrants and Handsome Veterans, Obscured Pasts and “Manifest Homes”

Irina Novikova

Space and Memory as a Model of Representation of the Other: Angela Carter and Carson McCullers

Ralitsa Lyutskanova

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