Cultural memory, .

History, be it remote or contemporary, is not simply a decorative background for the narratives of urban writers their storytelling emerges from the connection between a person and history, between individual memory and historical memory. In Andrei Bitov s (b. 1937) novel The Pushkin House (Pushkinskii dom, 1978), Leva Odoevtsev is a keeper of the cultural memory of the past, a memory to which he is vitally connected (he is a scholar of literature, just as his father and grandfather before him were). Odoevtsev is a Stagnation-era hero Bitov creates him as a talented man but of empty potential - and indeed, what else could Soviet history beget. 

Writing and Religion in England, 1558-1689 Studies in Community-Making and Cultural Memory. Edited by Roger D. Sell and Anthony W. Johnson. Burlington Ashgate, 2009. pp. 273-88. 

Jens Brockmeier, Remembering and Forgetting Narrative as Cultural Memory, Culture and Psychology 8 (2002) 15-43 (21-34, quotation from pages 21, 34). He relates the concept of cultural memory to intertextuality see more on this in n. 48, below. 

A. Erll, Cultural Memory Studies An Introduction, in A Companion to Cultural Memory Studies, ed. A. Erll and A. Nunning (Berlin De Gruyter, 2010), 8. 

In the last decade or so, we have experienced both an explosion and the inflation of concepts like social, collective, and cultural memory within biblical scholarship. This is obviously connected to the comprehensive debates on the historiography of ancient Israel. But it should certainly also be related to the attention paid to the literary qualities of the biblical texts, in our instance, the prophetic—and poetic—discourses. While a social historian like Ben Zvi asks how memory contributes to identity formation, a literary critic like bandy focuses on how memory is thematized, its aesthetics, and the relations between the social and individual in the construction of memory. " bandy explains how both approaches are attentive to rhetorical strategies, tropes, as well as the production and reception of the texts." ... 

Erll, Cultural Memory Studies, 7, cf. Wolf Kansteiner, Finding Meaning in Memory A Methodological Critique of Collective Memory Studies, History and Theory 41 (2002) ... 

When Assmann, Collective Memory," 130, distinguishes between functional and stored memory, the concept of memory differs from that of tradition while the concept of tradition focuses on the actuality of memory culture only, cultural memory exists both in the mode of potentiality and in the mode of actuality. ... 

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