Astri Erll
Biographic Data
| ID | 781020 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Astri Erll |
| GIVEN NAMES | Astri |
| FAMILY NAME | Erll |
| SIGNATURE | ERLL A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Goethe University Frankfurt |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4668-4132 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 363 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
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Transculturality and the Eco-Logic of Memory
This article asks how memory studies might use the conceptual insights gained during its “third transcultural phase” for the challenges of its “fourth phase” – heralded in this Special Issue as a phase of research invested in questions about memory and the environment. It argues that memory is fundamentally “eco-logical”, and that the relational dynamics explored in research on transcultural memory can enable an understanding of the more-than-hum…
Game-changing Homeric memory
This article connects new modernist studies with memory studies and classical reception studies. It addresses the perennial conundrum about the relation between James Joyce's Ulysses (1922) and the Homeric Odyssey, showing how modernist memories operate backwards and forwards in time. Ulysses had a fundamental—truly game-changing—impact on memories of the Odyssey over the past century. With Ulysses, the imagination of the figure of Odysseus was p…
Flashbulb memories
The two authors – one from literary and cultural studies, the other a cognitive psychologist – explore how the interdisciplinary perspective of Memory Studies can broaden and enrich current research efforts on flashbulb memories (FBMs). FBMs are memories of the circumstances in which one learned of a public emotionally charged event, such as 9/11 . Psychological research on FBMs have focused on their cognitive properties, their putative accuracy …
The hidden power of implicit collective memory
Over the past decades, the field of memory studies has produced a wealth of research on explicit (conscious, commemorative, official) collective memory. But beyond this realm of the visible, there is a largely hidden world of ‘implicit collective memory’. Elements of this invisible world include narrative schemata, stereotypes, patterns of framing, or world models, which are usually not explicitly known or addressed, but get passed on from genera…
Bliver Covid-19 en del af den kollektive erindring
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James, Cyril Lionel Robert: The Black Jacobins
Der panafrikanische Polit-Klassiker entstand in London und erschien dort 1938. Zu einem Zeitpunkt, da die Geschichtsschreibung eurozentrisch in der Perspektive und im Ansatz auf die Darstellung politischer Ereignisgeschichte ausgerichtet war, legte James sein Gegenmodell der Kolonialgeschichte aus der Perspektive der Kolonisierten mit einem wirtschafts- und sozialgeschichtlichen Ansatz vor. Mit der Absicht, die Geschichtsschreibung des Kolonialis…
Afterword
This afterword addresses the complex temporal and global dynamics of the coronavirus pandemic. After considering some of the new social rhythms that have emerged in the wake of Covid-19 around the world, it turns to the role of collective memory before, during and after corona. The aim is to provide a basic grid for how the Covid-19 pandemic could be addressed using memory studies expertise and concepts such as premediation, memorability, memory …
Travelling Narratives in Ecologies of Trauma
This article discusses cultural trauma as a concept that is fraught with category mistakes or engenders overly strong distinctions between individual and collective levels. Working from a broader memory studies-perspective, it argues that a combination of research on the "extended mind" with the conceptual repertoire of actor-network theory is well-suited to address "trauma in culture" as a relational process involving biological, mental, social,…
Odyssean Travels
This essay brings cultural and historical narratology into dialogue with classical reception studies. It addresses the reception of Homer's Odyssey and its narrative forms across time, focusing on Charles Lamb's children's version The Adventures of Ulysses (1808) and James Joyce's modernist novel Ulysses (1922) as two landmarks in the epic's modern memory. The essay traces how the Odyssey's in medias res beginning initiated the epic's elaborate p…
Introduction
This introduction outlines new developments in the field of cultural and media memory studies in the wake of the transcultural turn. It pays specific attention to the twofold dynamics of memory’s travel and locatedness. While in recent memory studies discourse there has been a tendency to see travel as the inspiration for innovative research, locatedness has become associated with old-fashioned, bounded approaches. Rather than reproduce the posit…
Homer
This article proposes to extend the prevalent short-term and presentist frameworks of research on transcultural memory and to consider its dynamics across long-term relational mnemohistories. After more than two and a half millennia, “Homer” and the Homeric epics still resonate in memory cultures across the world. But they are often erroneously cast as “European heritage” or “foundations of the West.” This is the result of what I call a tenacious…
Kollektives Gedächtnis und Erinnerungskulturen
Vorwort
Wędrująca pamięć
Dokąd zmierzają studia nad pamięcią? Es wurde schon alles gesagt, nur noch nicht von jedem – „Wszystko już powiedziano, ale wciąż jeszcze nie wszyscy powiedzieli wszystko”. To w duchu tego słynnego powiedzenia komediopisarza Karla Valentina komentatorzy i krytycy studiów nad pamięcią zwykli podsumowywać aktualny stan tej dyscypliny. Istotnie, po dwóch dekadach intensywnych badań udało nam się sporządzić mapy miejsc pamięci nie tylko we Francji, a…
Generation in Literary History
Generation" is a twofold term. Understood as generational identity (generationality) the history of "generation" can be traced back to its foundational moment during the First World War. In its second meaning, as genealogy, the idea of generation is age-old. While sociological and historical research tends to focus on generationality, literary and cultural studies have recently reinvigorated the study of generation as genealogy. Both concepts are…
Memory in Culture
This book questions the sociocultural dimensions of remembering. It offers an overview of the history and theory of memory studies through the lens of sociology, political science, anthropology, psych
Kollektives Gedächtnis und Erinnerungskulturen
The »social life of texts« – Erinnerungsliteratur als Gegenstand der Sozialgeschichte. Ein Kommentar
Article The »social life of texts« – Erinnerungsliteratur als Gegenstand der Sozialgeschichte. Ein Kommentar was published on July 1, 2011 in the journal Internationales Archiv für Sozialgeschichte der deutschen Literatur (volume 36, issue 1)
Traumatic pasts, literary afterlives, and transcultural memory
This article presents new directions of literary and media memory studies. It distinguishes between (1) the study of 'traumatic pasts', i.e. representations of war and violence in literature and other media, (2) diachronic and intermedial approaches to 'literary afterlives' and (3) recent insights into the inherent transculturality of memory and their consequences for literary and media studies
Travelling Memory
Locating Family in Cultural Memory Studies
Cultural memory studies addresses the question of how the "past" is created and recreated within sociocultural contexts. What is the place of "family"-and of family memories-in this burgeoning field? And how can the concept of memory be used as a tool in comparative family research? This article presents, first, the main notions of Maurice Halbwachs's theory of mémoire collective and asks how the sociologist places family within collective memory…
A companion to cultural memory studies
This handbook represents the interdisciplinary and international field of memory studies for the first time in one volume. Articles by renowned international scholars offer readers a unique overview of the key concepts of cultural memory studies. The handbook not only documents current research in an unprecedented way; it also serves as a forum for bringing together approaches from areas as varied as sociology, political sciences, history, theolo…
Introduction
Mediation, Remediation, and the Dynamics of Cultural Memory
This collection links the use of media to the larger socio-cultural processes involved in collective memory-making. The focus in particular is on mediation and remediation as two fundamental aspects of media use, and on the dynamics between them. Key questions are: What role do media play in the production and circulation of cultural memories? How do mediation, remediation and intermediality shape objects and acts of cultural remembrance? How can…
Travelling Memory
Afterword
This afterword addresses the complex temporal and global dynamics of the coronavirus pandemic. After considering some of the new social rhythms that have emerged in the wake of Covid-19 around the world, it turns to the role of collective memory before, during and after corona. The aim is to provide a basic grid for how the Covid-19 pandemic could be addressed using memory studies expertise and concepts such as premediation, memorability, memory …
The hidden power of implicit collective memory
Over the past decades, the field of memory studies has produced a wealth of research on explicit (conscious, commemorative, official) collective memory. But beyond this realm of the visible, there is a largely hidden world of ‘implicit collective memory’. Elements of this invisible world include narrative schemata, stereotypes, patterns of framing, or world models, which are usually not explicitly known or addressed, but get passed on from genera…
Locating Family in Cultural Memory Studies
Cultural memory studies addresses the question of how the "past" is created and recreated within sociocultural contexts. What is the place of "family"-and of family memories-in this burgeoning field? And how can the concept of memory be used as a tool in comparative family research? This article presents, first, the main notions of Maurice Halbwachs's theory of mémoire collective and asks how the sociologist places family within collective memory…
Homer
This article proposes to extend the prevalent short-term and presentist frameworks of research on transcultural memory and to consider its dynamics across long-term relational mnemohistories. After more than two and a half millennia, “Homer” and the Homeric epics still resonate in memory cultures across the world. But they are often erroneously cast as “European heritage” or “foundations of the West.” This is the result of what I call a tenacious…
Generation in Literary History
Generation" is a twofold term. Understood as generational identity (generationality) the history of "generation" can be traced back to its foundational moment during the First World War. In its second meaning, as genealogy, the idea of generation is age-old. While sociological and historical research tends to focus on generationality, literary and cultural studies have recently reinvigorated the study of generation as genealogy. Both concepts are…
Traumatic pasts, literary afterlives, and transcultural memory
This article presents new directions of literary and media memory studies. It distinguishes between (1) the study of 'traumatic pasts', i.e. representations of war and violence in literature and other media, (2) diachronic and intermedial approaches to 'literary afterlives' and (3) recent insights into the inherent transculturality of memory and their consequences for literary and media studies
Travelling Narratives in Ecologies of Trauma
This article discusses cultural trauma as a concept that is fraught with category mistakes or engenders overly strong distinctions between individual and collective levels. Working from a broader memory studies-perspective, it argues that a combination of research on the "extended mind" with the conceptual repertoire of actor-network theory is well-suited to address "trauma in culture" as a relational process involving biological, mental, social,…
Flashbulb memories
The two authors – one from literary and cultural studies, the other a cognitive psychologist – explore how the interdisciplinary perspective of Memory Studies can broaden and enrich current research efforts on flashbulb memories (FBMs). FBMs are memories of the circumstances in which one learned of a public emotionally charged event, such as 9/11 . Psychological research on FBMs have focused on their cognitive properties, their putative accuracy …
Introduction
This introduction outlines new developments in the field of cultural and media memory studies in the wake of the transcultural turn. It pays specific attention to the twofold dynamics of memory’s travel and locatedness. While in recent memory studies discourse there has been a tendency to see travel as the inspiration for innovative research, locatedness has become associated with old-fashioned, bounded approaches. Rather than reproduce the posit…
Gattungen, Formtraditionen und kulturelles Gedächtnis
Die Geschlechterforschung hat im letzten Jahrzehnt, wie Inge Stephan (2000b, S. 296; vgl. auch Hof 2003) beobachtet, eine »kulturwissenschaftliche Neuorientierung« vollzogen. Zu verzeichnen ist eine »Hinwendung zu neuen Themen und Forschungsmethoden«, zu denen Stephan auch ›Gedächtnis‹ und ›Erinnerung‹ (vgl. ebd.) zählt. Interdisziplinäre Sammelbände mit Titeln wie Women and Memory (Lourie/Stanton/Vicinus 1987), Gender and Memory (Leydesdorff/Pas…
Kollektives Gedächtnis und Erinnerungskulturen
Medien und Gedächtnis. Aspekte interdisziplinärer Forschung«
Literature, Film, and the Mediality of Cultural Memory
Cultural Memory Studies
Introduction
Mediation, Remediation, and the Dynamics of Cultural Memory
This collection links the use of media to the larger socio-cultural processes involved in collective memory-making. The focus in particular is on mediation and remediation as two fundamental aspects of media use, and on the dynamics between them. Key questions are: What role do media play in the production and circulation of cultural memories? How do mediation, remediation and intermediality shape objects and acts of cultural remembrance? How can…
A companion to cultural memory studies
This handbook represents the interdisciplinary and international field of memory studies for the first time in one volume. Articles by renowned international scholars offer readers a unique overview of the key concepts of cultural memory studies. The handbook not only documents current research in an unprecedented way; it also serves as a forum for bringing together approaches from areas as varied as sociology, political sciences, history, theolo…
Memory in Culture
This book questions the sociocultural dimensions of remembering. It offers an overview of the history and theory of memory studies through the lens of sociology, political science, anthropology, psych
Kollektives Gedächtnis und Erinnerungskulturen
The »social life of texts« – Erinnerungsliteratur als Gegenstand der Sozialgeschichte. Ein Kommentar
Article The »social life of texts« – Erinnerungsliteratur als Gegenstand der Sozialgeschichte. Ein Kommentar was published on July 1, 2011 in the journal Internationales Archiv für Sozialgeschichte der deutschen Literatur (volume 36, issue 1)
Traumatic pasts, literary afterlives, and transcultural memory
This article presents new directions of literary and media memory studies. It distinguishes between (1) the study of 'traumatic pasts', i.e. representations of war and violence in literature and other media, (2) diachronic and intermedial approaches to 'literary afterlives' and (3) recent insights into the inherent transculturality of memory and their consequences for literary and media studies
Travelling Memory
Locating Family in Cultural Memory Studies
Cultural memory studies addresses the question of how the "past" is created and recreated within sociocultural contexts. What is the place of "family"-and of family memories-in this burgeoning field? And how can the concept of memory be used as a tool in comparative family research? This article presents, first, the main notions of Maurice Halbwachs's theory of mémoire collective and asks how the sociologist places family within collective memory…
Generation in Literary History
Generation" is a twofold term. Understood as generational identity (generationality) the history of "generation" can be traced back to its foundational moment during the First World War. In its second meaning, as genealogy, the idea of generation is age-old. While sociological and historical research tends to focus on generationality, literary and cultural studies have recently reinvigorated the study of generation as genealogy. Both concepts are…
Vorwort
Wędrująca pamięć
Dokąd zmierzają studia nad pamięcią? Es wurde schon alles gesagt, nur noch nicht von jedem – „Wszystko już powiedziano, ale wciąż jeszcze nie wszyscy powiedzieli wszystko”. To w duchu tego słynnego powiedzenia komediopisarza Karla Valentina komentatorzy i krytycy studiów nad pamięcią zwykli podsumowywać aktualny stan tej dyscypliny. Istotnie, po dwóch dekadach intensywnych badań udało nam się sporządzić mapy miejsc pamięci nie tylko we Francji, a…
Kollektives Gedächtnis und Erinnerungskulturen
Homer
This article proposes to extend the prevalent short-term and presentist frameworks of research on transcultural memory and to consider its dynamics across long-term relational mnemohistories. After more than two and a half millennia, “Homer” and the Homeric epics still resonate in memory cultures across the world. But they are often erroneously cast as “European heritage” or “foundations of the West.” This is the result of what I call a tenacious…
Odyssean Travels
This essay brings cultural and historical narratology into dialogue with classical reception studies. It addresses the reception of Homer's Odyssey and its narrative forms across time, focusing on Charles Lamb's children's version The Adventures of Ulysses (1808) and James Joyce's modernist novel Ulysses (1922) as two landmarks in the epic's modern memory. The essay traces how the Odyssey's in medias res beginning initiated the epic's elaborate p…
Introduction
This introduction outlines new developments in the field of cultural and media memory studies in the wake of the transcultural turn. It pays specific attention to the twofold dynamics of memory’s travel and locatedness. While in recent memory studies discourse there has been a tendency to see travel as the inspiration for innovative research, locatedness has become associated with old-fashioned, bounded approaches. Rather than reproduce the posit…
James, Cyril Lionel Robert: The Black Jacobins
Der panafrikanische Polit-Klassiker entstand in London und erschien dort 1938. Zu einem Zeitpunkt, da die Geschichtsschreibung eurozentrisch in der Perspektive und im Ansatz auf die Darstellung politischer Ereignisgeschichte ausgerichtet war, legte James sein Gegenmodell der Kolonialgeschichte aus der Perspektive der Kolonisierten mit einem wirtschafts- und sozialgeschichtlichen Ansatz vor. Mit der Absicht, die Geschichtsschreibung des Kolonialis…
Afterword
This afterword addresses the complex temporal and global dynamics of the coronavirus pandemic. After considering some of the new social rhythms that have emerged in the wake of Covid-19 around the world, it turns to the role of collective memory before, during and after corona. The aim is to provide a basic grid for how the Covid-19 pandemic could be addressed using memory studies expertise and concepts such as premediation, memorability, memory …
Travelling Narratives in Ecologies of Trauma
This article discusses cultural trauma as a concept that is fraught with category mistakes or engenders overly strong distinctions between individual and collective levels. Working from a broader memory studies-perspective, it argues that a combination of research on the "extended mind" with the conceptual repertoire of actor-network theory is well-suited to address "trauma in culture" as a relational process involving biological, mental, social,…
Bliver Covid-19 en del af den kollektive erindring
am Main
Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration (17 works) · Psychology (17 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Art (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Cognitive science (7 works) · History (7 works) · Collective memory (6 works) · Computer Science (6 works)