Theories Of Social Remembering (Theorizing Society)

only after the invention of printing in the 1450s that hooks came to he seen as supplementing memory (I.e

use of the past as a screen into which different groups can project their contradictions, controversies and conflicts in objective forms (Huyssen

In literary cultures, past events, removed from living memories and fixed to printed pages, lose their vividness and immediacy. Moreover,

'the past is highly resistant to efforts to make it over' (Schudson

whose vision Of the past and whose memories should he trusted. In

Narratization, which

'every performance is also a creative act, there is no distinct separation between performer and creator' (Goody

the past was fused with the present, the collective identity based on myths, while handing down modes of life from the past, was expressed by genealogies and was more a matter of ingrained habit than deliberate effort. The

'a unified Christian drama with no scope for or interest in differences between past and present' (Lowenthal