The social marketplace for new and used books.

Get started

Learn to sell
Learn to buy
Buy textbooks
Sign up
Buy a giftcard
For the authors

Support

Help
Track a shipment
Terms of use
Privacy policy
Cookies policy

Company

About us
Work with us
Give feedback
Categories

Contact us

Fast delivery with

Safe payments by

Visa
Mastercard
Vipps
Klarna

© 2026 Bookis AS

English

The Counter-Memorial Impulse in Twentieth-Century English Fiction

Hardcover • 2009 • English

The Counter-Memorial Impulse in Twentieth-Century English Fiction

By Sarah Henstra

0 Ratings • 0.0 of 5

‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌

About the book

The Counter-Memorial Impulse describes the tendency in 20th-century English fiction to resist commemorative models and to treat grief as an occasion for social critique. At a time when public memorial projects are hotly debated in the media and 'archive fever' has gripped the humanities, this book offers timely and original insights the literary treatment of mourning and remembrance. Sarah Henstra explores the relationship between (post)modern innovations in narrative form and the historical eve...Show more

Book details

ISBN

9780230577145

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Published year

2009

Language

English

Original title

The Counter-Memorial Impulse in Twentieth-Century English Fiction

Format

Hardcover

Shippping and returns

Shipping

Used books are shipped by the seller. Expected delivery after package is sent is 2-4 days.

Returns

Contact the seller after delivery.

Reviews · 0

0 Ratings • 0.0 of 5

You might also like

Monumental Cares Sites of History and Contemporary Art

Monumental Cares Sites of History and Contemporary Art

Mechtild Widrich

The memory police

The memory police

Too Much How Victorian Constraints Still Bind Women Today

Too Much How Victorian Constraints Still Bind Women Today

Rachel Vorona Cote

The Undying A Meditation on Modern Illness

The Undying A Meditation on Modern Illness

Anne Boyer

Middle England

Middle England

Jonathan Coe

Melmoth

Melmoth

Sarah Perry

The remains of the day

The remains of the day

Kazuo Ishiguro

In Praise of Forgetting

In Praise of Forgetting

David Rieff

The Past Is a Foreign Country - Revisited

The Past Is a Foreign Country - Revisited

David (University College London) Lowenthal

The taxidermist's daughter

The taxidermist's daughter

Kate Mosse

Writing the History of Memory

Writing the History of Memory

Stefan Berger

Memorylands

Memorylands

Sharon MacDonald

Research Methods for Memory Studies

Research Methods for Memory Studies

Emily Keightley

Mimesis

Mimesis

Erich Auerbach

Memory in culture

Memory in culture

Astrid Erll

Understanding Heritage and Memory

Understanding Heritage and Memory

Tim Benton

The winter ghosts

The winter ghosts

Kate Mosse

The Historical Novel

The Historical Novel

Jerome de Groot

Tourists of History

Tourists of History

Marita Sturken

Recent Themes in Historical Thinking Historians in Conversation

Recent Themes in Historical Thinking Historians in Conversation

Donald A. Yerxa

Between the Acts

Between the Acts

Virginia Woolf

History and memory

History and memory

Geoffrey Cubitt

Remembered

Remembered

Julie Summers

A Century of Media, A Century of War

A Century of Media, A Century of War

Robin Andersen

Sepulchre

Sepulchre

Kate Mosse

Postwar

Postwar

Forgotten Voices of the Holocaust

Forgotten Voices of the Holocaust

Lyn Smith

Modernism A Cultural History

Modernism A Cultural History

Tim Armstrong

Postcolonial Melancholia

Postcolonial Melancholia

Paul Gilroy

Publics and Counterpublics

Publics and Counterpublics

Michael Warner

Confronting Images

Confronting Images

Georges Didi-Huberman

The Memory of Catastrophe

The Memory of Catastrophe

Peter Gray

Memory & Power in post-war Europe

Memory & Power in post-war Europe

Jan-Werner Müller

The Politics of Postmodernism

The Politics of Postmodernism

Linda Hutcheon

A Theory of Parody

A Theory of Parody

Linda Hutcheon

Memory and the Postcolony

Memory and the Postcolony

Richard Werbner

History and memory after Auschwitz

History and memory after Auschwitz

Dominick LaCapra

Amsterdam

Amsterdam

Ian McEwan

The Memory Tray

The Memory Tray

Deryn Rees-Jones