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Citation, Intertextuality and Memory in the Middle Ages and Renaissance volume 1 - Text, Music and Image from Machaut to... Citation, Intertextuality and Memory in the Middle Ages and Renaissance volume 1 - Text, Music and Image from Machaut to Ariosto (Hardcover, New)
Yolanda Plumley, Giuliano Di Bacco, Stefano Jossa
R4,058 Discovery Miles 40 580 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

From the Middle Ages onwards, writers, artists and composers became self-consciously aware of the vast potential for external references to enrich their works. By evoking canonical texts and their producers from the distant or more recent past, authors demonstrated their respect for tradition while showcasing their own merits. In so doing they also manipulated the memory of their readers. This volume represents a multidisciplinary approach to the themes of citation and intertextual play. It is also an exploration of the role of memory in the cultural production of the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance. The essays investigate work by renowned authors, composers and artists, as well as less familiar sources, from France, England and Italy.

Living Longer, Living Better - Exploring the Heart-Mind Connection (Hardcover): Lionel H. Opie Living Longer, Living Better - Exploring the Heart-Mind Connection (Hardcover)
Lionel H. Opie
R935 Discovery Miles 9 350 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Living Longer: The heart-mind connection is written for all those who strive for optimal long-term health and the maximal functioning of their hearts and minds. Today's problem for the health-conscious individual is information overload - new health studies pour out almost daily from newspapers, radio stations and television networks. Many of the reports are contradictory and often misleading.
In this book, Professor Opie sifts through the available information on the vast number of possible health promotion changes, varying from increased exercise to aspirin to green tea, and diets from Atkins to the vegetarian, with the aim of grading the validity of the evidence, asking questions such as, "Just how true are the studies" and "Just how compelling are the facts they claim"? Living Longer guides the reader through this morass of information with the message that just five key steps taken now will promote long-term health benefits for heart and mind and give protection from future heart disease and brain deterioration.

Memory - Histories, Theories, Debates (Hardcover): Susannah Radstone, Bill Schwarz Memory - Histories, Theories, Debates (Hardcover)
Susannah Radstone, Bill Schwarz
R3,768 R3,306 Discovery Miles 33 060 Save R462 (12%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Memory has never been closer to us, yet never more difficult to understand. In the more than thirty specially commissioned essays that make up this book, leading scholars survey the histories, the theories, and the faultlines that compose the field of memory research. The volume reconstructs the work of the great philosophical and literary figures of the last two centuries who recast the concept of memory and brought it into the forefront of the modernist and postmodernist imagination-among them, Bergson, Halbwachs, Freud, Proust, Benjamin, Adorno, Derrida, and Deleuze. Drawing on recent advances in the sciences and in the humanities, the contributors address the question of how memory works, highlighting transactions between the interiority of subjective memory and the larger fields of public or collective memory. The public, political life of memory is an increasingly urgent issue in the societies we now inhabit, while the category of memory itself seems to become ever more capacious. Asking how we might think about the politics of memory, the closing chapters explore a number of defining instances in which the troubled phenomenon of memory has entered and reshaped our very conception of what makes and drives the domain of politics. These include issues of slavery, the Soviet experience, the Holocaust, feminism and recovered memory, and memory in post-apartheid South Africa.

Happy Moments - How to Create Experiences You'll Remember for a Lifetime (Paperback): Meik Wiking Happy Moments - How to Create Experiences You'll Remember for a Lifetime (Paperback)
Meik Wiking
R330 R299 Discovery Miles 2 990 Save R31 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

'Meik's new book will change the way you think' Dr Rangan Chatterjee ___________________________________________________________________________ From the same author that brought us The Little Book of Hygge, this book reveals the secret to filling your life with happy moments, and how to remember them for ever. Happy memories don't have to be reserved for big life events. Drawing on global surveys, behavioural science experiments and data gathered by The Happiness Research Institute in Copenhagen, Meik is here to show how we can we can turn ordinary experiences into something extraordinary. Whether it's eating dinner at the table rather than in front of the TV, exploring a new part of your neighbourhood, or planning how you're going to celebrate your small wins, this book will help you find the magic in the every day, and create memories you will cherish forever. PRE-ORDER THE HYGGE HOME, THE NEW BOOK FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE LITTLE BOOK OF HYGGE

Achieving Optimal Memory (Paperback, Ed): Aaron Nelson, Susan Gilbert Achieving Optimal Memory (Paperback, Ed)
Aaron Nelson, Susan Gilbert
R547 R519 Discovery Miles 5 190 Save R28 (5%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

From a leading expert at one of the world's most respected medical schools--a complete program for achieving optimal memory, for life!. .

Ever find yourself walking into a room and forgetting why? Having trouble remembering that pesky password or your siblings' birthdays? Don't panic. Memory lapses like these are common, especially after age forty. But memory loss isn't inevitable or irreversible. You can achieve optimal memory at any age--and this book shows you how.. .

Dr. Aaron P. Nelson, a member of the Harvard Medical School faculty and a clinical neuropsychologist, has helped thousands of patients with memory and other cognitive problems. In his easy-to-understand guide you'll find: . . . How to know if you've got a problem and how to have it evaluated . How factors such as smoking, poor nutrition, and a sedentary lifestyle can hurt your memory . A complete memory-optimizing program, including mental exercises, nutrition, tips for remembering important things, and more. Current and future treatment options for serious memory impairment. .

About the Harvard Medical School health guide series. .

Each book from Harvard Medical School gives you the knowledge you need to understand and take control of your health. In every book, a world-renowned expert from Harvard Medical School provides you with the latest information on diagnosis, traditional and alternative treatments, home remedies, and lifestyle changes that can make a powerful difference in your health.. .

Memory and Representation - Constructed Truths and Competing Realities (Paperback): Dena E. Eber (School of Art, Bowling Green... Memory and Representation - Constructed Truths and Competing Realities (Paperback)
Dena E. Eber (School of Art, Bowling Green State University, USA), Arthur G. Neal
R429 Discovery Miles 4 290 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Eber and Neal address some of the theoretical issues connected with symbolic constructions of reality through human memory and its subsequent representation. Linkages between what we remember and how we represent it give humans their distinctive characteristics. We construct our reality from how we perceive the events in our lives and, from that reality, we create a symbol system to describe our world. It is through such symbolic constructions that we are provided with a usable backdrop for shaping our memories and organizing them into meaningful lines of action.
These case studies present a new and creative synthesis of the multiple meanings of memory and representation within the context of contemporary perceptions of truth.

Imaging the Great Irish Famine - Representing Dispossession in Visual Culture (Paperback): Niamh Ann Kelly Imaging the Great Irish Famine - Representing Dispossession in Visual Culture (Paperback)
Niamh Ann Kelly
R1,380 Discovery Miles 13 800 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The depiction of historical humanitarian disasters in art exhibitions, news reports, monuments and heritage landscapes has framed the harrowing images we currently associate with dispossession. People across the world are driven out of their homes and countries on a wave of conflict, poverty and famine, and our main sites for engaging with their loss are visual news and social media. In a reappraisal of the viewer's role in representations of displacement, Niamh Ann Kelly examines a wide range of commemorative visual culture from the mid-nineteenth-century Great Irish Famine. Her analysis of memorial images, objects and locations from that period until the early 21st century shows how artefacts of historical trauma can affect understandings of enforced migrations as an ongoing form of political violence. This book will be of interest to students and researchers of museum and heritage studies, material culture, Irish history and contemporary visual cultures exploring dispossession.

Materializing Memories - Dispositifs, Generations, Amateurs (Paperback): Susan Aasman, Andreas Fickers, Joseph Wachelder Materializing Memories - Dispositifs, Generations, Amateurs (Paperback)
Susan Aasman, Andreas Fickers, Joseph Wachelder
R1,384 Discovery Miles 13 840 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A multitude of devices and technological tools now exist to make, share, and store memories and moments with family, friends, and even strangers. Memory practices such as home movies, which originated as the privilege of a few, well-to-do families, have now emerged as ubiquitous and immediate cultures of sharing. Departing from the history of home movies, this volume offers a sophisticated understanding of technologically mediated, mostly ritualized memory practices, from early beginnings in the fin-de-siecle to today. Departing from a longue duree perspective on home movie practices, Materializing Memories moves beyond a strict historical study to grapple with highly theorized fields, such as media studies, memory studies, and science and technology studies (STS). The contributors to this volume reflect on these different intellectual backgrounds and perspectives, but all chapters share a common framework by addressing practices of use, user configurations, and relevant media landscapes. Grasping the cultural dynamics of such multi-faceted practices requires a multidimensional conceptual approach, here achieved by centering around three concepts as central analytical lenses: dispositifs, generations, and amateurs.

Searching For Memory - The Brain, The Mind, And The Past (Paperback, New ed): Daniel L Schacter Searching For Memory - The Brain, The Mind, And The Past (Paperback, New ed)
Daniel L Schacter
R849 Discovery Miles 8 490 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Memory. There may be nothing more important to human beings than our ability to enshrine experience and recall it. While philosophers and poets have elevated memory to an almost mystical level, psychologists have struggled to demystify it. Now, according to Daniel Schacter, one of the most distinguished memory researchers, the mysteries of memory are finally yielding to dramatic, even revolutionary, scientific breakthroughs. Schacter explains how and why it may change our understanding of everything from false memory to Alzheimer's disease, from recovered memory to amnesia with fascinating firsthand accounts of patients with striking--and sometimes bizarre--amnesias resulting from brain injury or psychological trauma.

Working Memory in the Primary Classroom - Practical and Inclusive Strategies for Curriculum Success in Maths and English... Working Memory in the Primary Classroom - Practical and Inclusive Strategies for Curriculum Success in Maths and English (Paperback)
Catherine Routley
R1,122 Discovery Miles 11 220 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This highly practical resource has been designed to support working memory and curriculum success in the Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 classroom. Working memory is crucial for success in maths, reading, reading comprehension and problem solving, yet children with poor working memory often struggle to meet the demands of everyday classroom activities. Filled with activities and support for Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 Maths and English, this book offers ideas for the practising teacher on how to make the classroom a place to reinforce memory skills, and to ensure that those with working memory difficulties are included and supported. Key features include: * Information on recognising working memory difficulties * Practical and specific strategies to support learners in the classroom * Graduated activities for Maths and English learners based on the national curriculum The importance of working memory on curriculum success is becoming increasingly evident, with growing emphasis on testing and an ever more demanding curriculum. With photocopiable and downloadable resources, this is an essential book for teachers, teaching assistants and other education staff looking to support working memory with children.

Memory in Mind and Brain - What Dream Imagery Reveals (Paperback): Morton Reiser Memory in Mind and Brain - What Dream Imagery Reveals (Paperback)
Morton Reiser
R979 Discovery Miles 9 790 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In this book an eminent psychiatrist integrates data from neuroscience, psychology, biology, artificial intelligence, and psychoanalysis to examine the nature of memory and dreams and to explore the crucial role of emotion in organizing memory. Establishing a correspondence between psychoanalytic and neurobiological principles, Dr. Reiser elaborates a contemporary psychobiological model of the dream process.

Remembering and Forgetting in the Age of Technology - Teaching, Learning, and the Science of Memory in a Wired World... Remembering and Forgetting in the Age of Technology - Teaching, Learning, and the Science of Memory in a Wired World (Paperback)
Michelle D. Miller
R1,095 R663 Discovery Miles 6 630 Save R432 (39%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

What does memory mean for learning in an age of smartphones and search engines?Human minds are made of memories, and today those memories have competition. Biological memory capacities are being supplanted, or at least supplemented, by digital ones, as we rely on recording-phone cameras, digital video, speech-to-text-to capture information we'll need in the future and then rely on those stored recordings to know what happened in the past. Search engines have taken over not only traditional reference materials but also the knowledge base that used to be encoded in our own brains. Google remembers, so we don't have to. And when we don't have to, we no longer can. Or can we? Remembering and Forgetting in the Age of Technology offers concise, nontechnical explanations of major principles of memory and attention-concepts that all teachers should know and that can inform how technology is used in their classes. Teachers will come away with a new appreciation of the importance of memory for learning, useful ideas for handling and discussing technology with their students, and an understanding of how memory is changing in our technology-saturated world.

The Nostalgia Factory - Memory, Time and Ageing (Paperback): Douwe Draaisma The Nostalgia Factory - Memory, Time and Ageing (Paperback)
Douwe Draaisma
R483 Discovery Miles 4 830 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

With a storyteller's gift and a scientist's insights, Draaisma celebrates the unique pleasures of the aging memory You cannot call to mind the name of a man you have known for 30 years. You walk into a room and forget what you came for. What is the name of that famous film you've watched so many times? These are common experiences, and as we grow older we tend to worry about these lapses. Is our memory failing? Is it dementia? Douwe Draaisma, a renowned memory specialist, here focuses on memory in later life. Writing with eloquence and humor, he explains neurological phenomena without becoming lost in specialist terminology. His book is reminiscent of Oliver Sacks's work, and not coincidentally this volume includes a long interview with Sacks, who speaks of his own memory changes as he entered his sixties. Draaisma moves smoothly from anecdote to research and back, weaving stories and science into a compelling description of the terrain of memory. He brings to light the "reminiscence effect," just one of the unexpected pleasures of an aging memory. The author writes reassuringly about forgetfulness and satisfyingly dismantles the stubborn myth that mental gymnastics can improve memory. He presents a convincing case in favor of the aging mind and urges us to value the nostalgia that survives as recollection, appreciate the intangible nature of past events, and take pleasure in the consolation of razor-sharp reminiscing.

Perceptual Imagination and Perceptual Memory (Hardcover): Fiona Macpherson, Fabian Dorsch Perceptual Imagination and Perceptual Memory (Hardcover)
Fiona Macpherson, Fabian Dorsch
R2,526 Discovery Miles 25 260 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In Perceptual Imagination and Perceptual Memory a group of distinguished contributors examine how perceptual imagination and memory resemble and differ from each other and from other kinds of sensory experience.They question the role each plays in perception and in the acquisition of knowledge. The collection discusses the epistemic roles that the imagination and memory play in our mental lives. It pushes forward the debates about the nature of perceptual imagination and perceptual memory. This innovative study will encourage future discussions on these interesting topics by students and scholars in the field. This volume presents ten new essays on the nature of perceptual imagination and perceptual memory, framed by an introductory overview of these topics. How do perceptual imagination and memory resemble and differ from each other and from other kinds of sensory experience? And what role does each play in perception and in the acquisition of knowledge? These are the two central questions that the contributors seek to address.

In Praise of Forgetting - Historical Memory and Its Ironies (Paperback): David Rieff In Praise of Forgetting - Historical Memory and Its Ironies (Paperback)
David Rieff
R420 Discovery Miles 4 200 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

A leading contrarian thinker explores the ethical paradox at the heart of history's wounds The conventional wisdom about historical memory is summed up in George Santayana's celebrated phrase, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." Today, the consensus that it is moral to remember, immoral to forget, is nearly absolute. And yet is this right? David Rieff, an independent writer who has reported on bloody conflicts in Africa, the Balkans, and Central Asia, insists that things are not so simple. He poses hard questions about whether remembrance ever truly has, or indeed ever could, "inoculate" the present against repeating the crimes of the past. He argues that rubbing raw historical wounds-whether self-inflicted or imposed by outside forces-neither remedies injustice nor confers reconciliation. If he is right, then historical memory is not a moral imperative but rather a moral option-sometimes called for, sometimes not. Collective remembrance can be toxic. Sometimes, Rieff concludes, it may be more moral to forget. Ranging widely across some of the defining conflicts of modern times-the Irish Troubles and the Easter Uprising of 1916, the white settlement of Australia, the American Civil War, the Balkan wars, the Holocaust, and 9/11-Rieff presents a pellucid examination of the uses and abuses of historical memory. His contentious, brilliant, and elegant essay is an indispensable work of moral philosophy.

The Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory - An Introduction (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition): Howard Eichenbaum The Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory - An Introduction (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
Howard Eichenbaum
R3,120 Discovery Miles 31 200 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This clear and accessible textbook introduces the brain's remarkable capacity for memory. The text was developed for undergraduate and beginning graduate students, but it will also be of use to cognitive scientists, biologists, and psychologists who seek an introduction to biological investigations of memory. Like the first edition, this fully-updated second edition begins with a history of memory research, starting with a 'Golden Era' at the turn of the 20th century, and progressing to our current understanding of the neurobiology of memory. Subsequent sections of the book discuss the cellular basis of memory, amnesia in humans and animals, the physiology of memory, declarative, procedural, and emotional memory systems, memory consolidation, and the control of memory by the prefrontal cortex. The book is organized into four sections, which highlight the major themes of the text. The first theme is connection, which considers how memory is fundamentally based on alterations in the connectivity of neurons. This section of the book covers the most well studied models of cellular mechanisms of neural plasticity that may underlie memory. The second theme is cognition, which involves fundamental issues in the psychological structure of memory. This section of the book considers the competition among views on the nature of cognitive processes that underlie memory, and tells how the controversy was eventually resolved. The third theme is compartmentalization, which is akin to the classic problem of memory localization. However, unlike localization, the notion of "compartments" is intended to avoid the notion that particular memories are pigeon-holed into specific loci, and instead emphasize that different forms of memory are accomplished by distinct modules or brain systems. This section of the book surveys the evidence for multiple memory systems, and outlines how they are mediated by different brain structures and systems. The fourth and final theme is consolidation, the process by which memories are transformed from a labile trace into a permanent store. This text encapsulates the major concepts in the field of memory research, and makes this area accessible to students who pursue a variety of related disciplines.

Working Memory - Developmental Differences, Component Processes & Improvement Mechanisms (Hardcover): Helen St Clair-Thompson Working Memory - Developmental Differences, Component Processes & Improvement Mechanisms (Hardcover)
Helen St Clair-Thompson
R4,162 R3,894 Discovery Miles 38 940 Save R268 (6%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book presents the latest research in working memory from around the world. There are thirteen chapters which are ordered according to three main themes. Chapters concerned with developmental differences address the relationships between working memory and children's learning and school performance, the role of working memory in the development of planning, associations between working memory and implicit learning, and theoretical models that account for visuo-spatial working memory development. Chapters concerned with component processes address issues of visual feature binding, aspects of cognitive load theory, the processing of affective stimuli in working memory, and the role of working memory in spatial orientation and navigation. Finally, a section on improvement mechanisms is comprised of chapters related to improving working memory through the differential outcomes procedure, applying transcranial alternating stimulation to the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, and methods of cognitive remediation including working memory training both in participants with ADHD and other populations. The chapters provide comprehensive reviews as well as presenting new empirical data concerned with these topics. They aim to further the current understanding of working memory from developmental, cognitive, and educational perspectives. The book should therefore be of interest to all academics and researchers with an interest in working memory and related skills.

Remembering Trauma (Paperback, New Ed): Richard J. McNally Remembering Trauma (Paperback, New Ed)
Richard J. McNally
R846 Discovery Miles 8 460 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Are horrific experiences indelibly fixed in a victim's memory? Or does the mind protect itself by banishing traumatic memories from consciousness? How victims remember trauma is the most controversial issue in psychology today, spilling out of consulting rooms and laboratories to capture headlines, rupture families, provoke legislative change, and influence criminal trials and civil suits. This book, by a clinician who is also a laboratory researcher, is the first comprehensive, balanced analysis of the clinical and scientific evidence bearing on this issue--and the first to provide definitive answers to the urgent questions at the heart of the controversy.

Synthesizing clinical case reports and the vast research literature on the effects of stress, suggestion, and trauma on memory, Richard McNally arrives at significant conclusions, first and foremost that traumatic experiences are indeed unforgettable. Though people sometimes do not think about disturbing experiences for long periods of time, traumatic events rarely slip from awareness for very long; furthermore, McNally reminds us, failure to think about traumas--such as early sexual abuse--must not be confused with amnesia or an inability to remember them. In fact, the evidence for repressed memories of trauma--or even for repression at all--is surprisingly weak.

A magisterial work of scholarship, panoramic in scope and nonpartisan throughout, this unfailingly lucid work will prove indispensable to anyone seeking to understand how people remember trauma.

Improve Your Memory - Sharpen Focus and Improve Performance (Paperback): Mark Channon Improve Your Memory - Sharpen Focus and Improve Performance (Paperback)
Mark Channon 1
R393 R355 Discovery Miles 3 550 Save R38 (10%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

This new edition of a popular guide to improving your memory will help you improve your performance at work and sharpen your focus. Written by a former memory champion, Improve Your Memory: Sharpen Focus and Improve Performance shows how a radically improved memory can add real value, helping you build your career and your personal life. As well as offering practical techniques to help you remember numbers, dates and facts, it contains innovative insight into new ways of learning and processing information that could completely change your life. It includes the latest scientific perspectives on mental agility and has a motivational approach that will help you develop smart goals and achieve a more focused realization of them.

Slaying is Hell - Essays on Trauma and Memory in the Whedonverse (Paperback): Alyson R. Buckman, Juliette C Kitchens, Katherine... Slaying is Hell - Essays on Trauma and Memory in the Whedonverse (Paperback)
Alyson R. Buckman, Juliette C Kitchens, Katherine A. Troyer
R1,529 Discovery Miles 15 290 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The films, television shows and graphic novel series that comprise the Whedonverse continually show that there is a high price to be paid for love, rebellion, heroism, anger, death, betrayal, friendship and saving the world. This collection of essays reveals the ways in which the Whedonverse treats the trauma of ordinary life with similar gravitas as trauma created by the supernatural, illustrating how memories are lost, transformed, utilized, celebrated, revered, questioned, feared and rebuffed within the storyworlds created by Joss Whedon and his collaborators. Through a variety of approaches and examinations, the essays in this book seek to understand how the themes of trauma, memory, and identity enrich one another in the Whedonverse and beyond. As the authors present different arguments and focus on various texts, the essays work to build a mosaic of the trauma found in beloved works like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Dollhouse and more. The book concludes with a meta-analysis that explores the allegations of various traumas made against Joss Whedon himself.

Sensation and Perception (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition): John Harris, Jared Smith Sensation and Perception (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
John Harris, Jared Smith
R2,271 Discovery Miles 22 710 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Is the human eye like a camera? What makes your ears 'pop' on a plane? Why did women in the Middle Ages put belladonna into their eyes? This fully updated 2nd edition of Sensation and Perception is an accessible introduction to the field of perception. It covers in detail the perceptual processes related to vision and hearing, taste and smell, touch and pain, as well as the vestibular and proprioceptive systems. From seeing in colour to pathologies of perception, and from recognising faces to research methods, this textbook is essential reading for any student of perception. New material includes: * 'Applications' features connect key content to real-life contexts * Thinking Critically feature pushes students beyond the basics * End-of-chapter essay questions * An entirely new chapter on Action & Perception John Harris is Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the University of Reading Jared Smith is Senior Research Fellow at the Population Health Research Institute of St George's, University of London

The Aesthetics of Nostalgia TV - Production Design and the Boomer Era (Paperback): Alex Bevan The Aesthetics of Nostalgia TV - Production Design and the Boomer Era (Paperback)
Alex Bevan
R1,379 Discovery Miles 13 790 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Aesthetics of Nostalgia TV explores the aesthetic politics of nostalgia for 1950s and 60s America on contemporary television. Specifically, it looks at how nostalgic TV production design shapes and is shaped by larger historical discourses on gender and technological change, and America's perceived decline as a global power. Alex Bevan argues that the aesthetics of nostalgic TV tell stories of their own about historical decline and progress, and the place of the baby boomer television suburb in American national memory. She contests theories on nostalgia that see it as stagnating, regressive, or a reversion to outdated gender and racial politics, and the technophobic longing for a bygone era; and, instead, argues nostalgia is an important form of historical memory and vehicle for negotiating periods of historical transition. The book addresses how and why the shows construct the boomer era as a placeholder for gender, racial, technological, and declensionist discourses of the present. The book uses Mad Men (AMC, 2007-2015), Ugly Betty (ABC, 2006-2010), Desperate Housewives (ABC, 2004-2012), and film remakes of 1950s and 60s family sitcoms as primary case studies.

Buch zur Verbesserung des Gedachtnisses - Die Mnemotechnik - Gedachtnisverbesserung fur Erwachsene (Die aktiven und effektiven... Buch zur Verbesserung des Gedachtnisses - Die Mnemotechnik - Gedachtnisverbesserung fur Erwachsene (Die aktiven und effektiven Fuhrungskrafte 2) (German, Paperback)
Jason Hancock
R561 Discovery Miles 5 610 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Shakespeare and Forgetting (Hardcover): Peter Holland Shakespeare and Forgetting (Hardcover)
Peter Holland
R3,311 Discovery Miles 33 110 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

What does it signify when a Shakespearean character forgets something or when Hamlet determines to 'wipe away all trivial fond records'? How might forgetting be an act to be performed, or be linked to forgiveness, such as when in The Winter's Tale Cleomenes encourages Leontes to 'forget your evil. / With them, forgive yourself'? And what do we as readers and audiences forget of Shakespeare's works and of the performances we watch? This is the first book devoted to a broad consideration of how Shakespeare explores the concept of forgetting and how forgetting functions in performance. A wide-ranging study of how Shakespeare dramatizes forgetting, it offers close readings of Shakespeare's plays, considering what Shakespeare forgot and what we forget about Shakespeare. The book touches on an equally broad range of forgetting theory from antiquity through to the present day, of forgetting in recent novels and films, and of creative ways of making sense of how our world constructs the cultural meaning of and anxiety about forgetting. Drawing on dozens of productions across the history of Shakespeare on stage and film, the book explores Shakespeare's dramaturgy, from characters who forget what they were about to say, to characters who leave the stage never to return, from real forgetting to performed forgetting, from the mad to the powerful, from playgoers to Shakespeare himself.

Miglioramento della Memoria - Il Libro sulla Memoria per Incrementare la Potenza Cerebrale - Cibo e Sane Abitudini per il... Miglioramento della Memoria - Il Libro sulla Memoria per Incrementare la Potenza Cerebrale - Cibo e Sane Abitudini per il Cervello per Aumentare la Memoria, Ricordare di Piu e Dimenticare di Meno (Italian, Paperback)
Edoardo Zeloni Magelli
R469 R435 Discovery Miles 4 350 Save R34 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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