Memory in the Twenty-First Century

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.

• List of illustrationsForeword; N. Katherine HaylesAcknowledgementsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: Memory in the Twenty-first Century; Sebastian Groes PART I: METAPHORS OF MEMORY1. Metaphors of Memory: From the Classical World to Modernity; Corin Depper2. Proust, the Madeleine, and Memory; Barry C. Smith3. Proust Recalled: A Psychological Revisiting of that Madeleine Memory Moment; E. Leigh Gibson4. The Persistence of Surrealism: Memory, Dreams and the Dead; Jeannette Baxter5. 'There Was Nothing Hidden That Might Not Be Revealed': The Brain Observatory and the Imaginary Media of Memory Research; Flora Lysen6. Memory and the Fictional Imagination: Creating Memories; Peter Childs7. Misled by Metaphor; Nicholas Carr8. Calling Gaia: World Brains and Global Memory; Stephan BesserPART II: MEMORY IN THE DIGITAL AGE9. What's in a Brain?; Will Self10. Will Self and his Inner Seahorse; Hugo Spiers11. Navigation Aids in Neuropsychological Rehabilitation; Ineke van der Ham12. Living Digitally; Wendy Moncur13. Death and Memory in the Twenty-first Century; Stacey Pitsillides14. The Oceanic Literary Reading Mind: An Impression; Michael Burke15. Memory and the Reading Substrate; Adrian van der Weel16. Memory, Materiality the Ethics of Reading in the Digital age; Sebastian Groes PART III: ECOLOGIES OF MEMORY17. Time that is Intolerant; Claire Colebrook18. 'The Winters Were Colder and the Snows Deeper'; Mike Hulme19. Memories of Snow: Nostalgia, Amnesia, Re-reading; Greg Garrard20. Writing Climate Change; Maggie Gee21. Against Nostalgia: Antony Gormley, Ian McEwan and J. G. Ballard's Climate Change Art; Sebastian GroesPART IV: MEMORY AND THE FUTURE22. The Trace of the Future; Mark Currie23. Simulation and the Evolution of Thought; Joanna J. Bryson24. Imaginative Anticipation: Rethinking Memory for Alternative Futures; Jessica Bland25. Memory is No Longer What it Used to Be; Patricia Pisters26. 'We Can Remember It, Funes, Wholesale': Borges, Total Recall and the Logic of Memory; Adam Roberts27. Remembering Without Stored Contents: A Philosophical Reflection on Memory; Daniel D. HuttoPART V: FORGETTING28. Remembering; Larry R. Squire and John T. Wixted29. Directed Forgetting; Karen R. Brandt30. Remembrance in the Twenty-first Century; Peter Childs31. Memory, Hither Come: The Body and the Page in Poetry Readings as Remembrance of Composition; Holly Pester32. Our Plastic Brain: Remembering and Forgetting Art; Heather H. Yeung33. Amnesia and Identity in Contemporary Literature; Jason Tougaw34. Amnesia in Young Adult Fiction; Alison Waller35. Remembering Responsibly; Thomas F. Coker and Heather H. YeungPART VI: TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY SUBJECTIVITIES36. Losing the Self? Subjectivity in the Digital Age; Claire Colebrook37. Memory and Voices: Challenging Psychiatric Diagnosis Through the Novel; Patricia Waugh38. Rereading the Self: On Remembering Multiple Selves In and Out of Young Adult Fiction; Alison Waller39. Neuroscience and Posthuman Memory; Robert Pepperell40. The Confabulation of Self; Joanna J. Bryson41. Malingering and Memory; Neander Abreu42. Trauma and the Truth; Martijn MeeterConclusion: 'The Futures of Memory'; Sebastian GroesReferencesIndex

"As teacher, writer and editor, Sebastian Groes is one of the most interesting figures of his generation. His project, it seems, is to restore English studies (still languishing after its long dalliance with 'theory') to a central role in our intellectual culture. To achieve this he has drawn widely from other disciplines including the cognitive sciences. He has enlisted poets, novelists, psychologists, neuroscientists and philosophers to his cause. He has brilliantly enlivened and widened that contested space where science and the humanities meet. Memory and consciousness have always been the lifeblood of literary expression; in the past thirty years they have become subjects of scientific enquiry. Groes's passion for both modes of exploration has resulted in this superb collection of essays." Ian McEwan, Booker Prize-winning author of Enduring Love, Atonement and The Children Act "Memory in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Sebastian Groes, is a remarkable achievement. Bringing together an interdisciplinary mix of scientists, cultural critics, philosophers, writers and literary critics, it ranges across a diverse set of topics, including memory as metaphor, anticipation, ecology, subjectivity and even memory's seeming antithesis, forgetting. Readers will find an equally rich range of references, including novels, films, poems and art works, in addition to what seems like the entire scholarly repertoire of works on, about, and relating to memory across the centuries in Western culture." N. Katherine Hayles, Professor of Literature and Director of Graduate Studies, Literature Program, Duke University, USA