Modernization and the crisis of memory : John Donne to Don DeLillo

IntroductionModern Intellectuals, Culture and MemoryCultural Memory1 Early Modern to Romantic: The Secularization of Memory2 The Victorian Evaporation of Memory The Standardization of Time: Industry and Transport Written and Pictorial Information and Sensationalism Retrochic, Novelty and Reification Reification Historicism Representation (and the Failure of Typology) History and Memory as Construction Jewish Messianic Memory as a Utopian Alternative The Demise of Cyclical History and Historical Contingency 3 Modernism: Epiphanic Memory Walter Pater and T.E. Hulme Modernist Epiphany and Amnesia W.B. Yeats4 Postmodernism: Memory as Paranoia and Literary Construction (Don DeLillo) Alienation and Narrative Countermemory Postmodern Culture and the Decline of Organic Memory The Collective Memory of Waste and the Bomb Individual Countermemory Afterword Works Cited Index