Time and Memory

Jo Alyson Parker, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of English at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia. She is the author of The Author’s Inheritance: Henry Fielding, Jane Austen, and the Establishment of the Novel (Northern Illinois University Press, 1998), and she has published essays on narrative and time.Michael Crawford, Ph.D. (Toronto) is an Associate Professor of Biological Sciences at the University or Windsor. His research currently focuses upon the mechanisms that underlie the “segmentation clock” and that give rise to vertebrae.Paul A. Harris is a Professor of English at Loyola Marymount University. His specialties include critical theory, interdisciplinary studies, and constraint-based writing.

• CONTENTSDedicationList of Contributors Foreword (Michael Crawford, Jo Alyson Parker, Paul Harris)President’s Welcoming RemarksA Few Th oughts about Memory, Collectiveness and Aff ectivity (Remy Lestienne)Founder’s AddressReflections Upon An Evolving Mirror (J. T. Fraser)Response: Globalized Humanity, Memory, and Ecology (Paul Harris)Section I: Inscribing and ForgettingPreface to Section IInscribing and Forgetting (Jo Alyson Parker)Chapter OneThe Body as a Medium of Memory (Christian Steineck)Response (Remy Lestienne)Chapter TwoBody Memories and Doing Gender: Remembering the Past and Interpreting the Present in Order to Change the Future (Karen Davies)Response (Linda McKie)Chapter Th reeCoding of Temporal Order Information in Semantic Memory (Elke van der Meer, Frank Kruger, Dirk Strauch, Lars Kuchinike)Chapter FourTelling the Time of Memory Loss: Narrative and Dementia (Marlene P. Soulsby)Response (Alison Phinney)Chapter FiveGeorges Perec’s “Time Bombs”: about Lieux (Marie-Pascale Huglo)Chapter SixSeeking in Sumatra (Brian Aldiss)Section II: InventingPreface to Section IIInventing (Paul Harris)Chapter SevenFurnishing a Memory Palace: Renaissance Mnemonic Practice and the Time of Memory (Mary Schmelzer)Chapter EightThe Radiance of Truth: Remembrance, Self-Evidence and Cinema (Heike Klippel)Chapter NineTones of Memory: Music and Time in the Prose of Yoel Hoff mann and W. G. Sebald (Michal Ben-Horin)Response (David Burrows)Chapter TenOnce a Communist, Always a Communist: How the Government Lost Track of Time in its Pursuit of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Katherine A. S. Sibley)Response (Dan Leab)Chapter ElevenTemporality, Intentionality, the Hard Problem of Consciousness and the Causal Mechanisms of Memory in the Brain: Facets of One Ontological Enigma? (E. R. Douglas)Section III: CommemorationPreface to Section IIICommemoration—Where Remembering and Forgetting Meet (Michael Crawford)Chapter TwelveJump-starting Timeliness: Trauma, Temporality and the Redressive Community (Jeffrey Prager)Chapter Th irteenBlack in Black: Time, Memory, and the African-American Identity (Ann Marie Bush)Chapter FourteenRemembering Th e Future: On the Return of Memories in the Visual Field (Efrat Biberman)Responses (Shirley Sharon-Zisser)(Robert Belton)Chapter FifteenFamily Memory, Gratitude And Social Bonds (Carmen Leccardi)Chapter SixteenTime to Meet: Meetings as Sites of Organizational Memory (Dawna Ballard and Luis Felipe Gómez)Index