Anamnesis - Studien Zur Topik Der Erinnerung in Der Erzahlenden Literatur Zwischen 1800 Und 1900 (Moritz - Keller - Raabe) (German, Hardcover, Reprint 2012 ed.)

The life-stories of problematic central figures as recounted in Moritz' AAnton ReiserA, Keller's ADer grA1/4ne HeinrichA and Raabe's AAkten des VogelsangsA serve as a basis for mapping out ambitiously extensive topologies of memory. Behind the narrative AI rememberA ploy, topologically structured models of the cultural organization and imaging of knowledge are discernible. Literary com-memoration makes one thing clear: prior to any kind of individual materialization, memory requires an archive of images to draw on, an archive containing the rhetorical formulas of both mythological and christological initiation narratives as well as of iconography. The literary figuration of AmodernA memory thus calls for reexamination and reevaluation.