“REALMS OF MEMORY” RECONSTRUCTED IN LITERARY DISCOURSE

The paper suggests that literary discourse provides “realms of memory” that are necessary, according to Pierre Nora, for reconstructing national collective memory. If “realms of memory” are revealed in literary discourse, the selected “realms of memory” will not be overabundant and ideologically det...

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Main Author: Svetlana A Sheypak
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University) 2017-12-01
Series:RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics
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Online Access:http://journals.rudn.ru/semiotics-semantics/article/view/18000
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description The paper suggests that literary discourse provides “realms of memory” that are necessary, according to Pierre Nora, for reconstructing national collective memory. If “realms of memory” are revealed in literary discourse, the selected “realms of memory” will not be overabundant and ideologically determined, as they are in the monumental edition “Realms of Memory” by Pierre Nora. Following Nora’s semiotic approach, the paper argues that “realms of memory” selected in literary discourse should be perceived as nodes in the national collective memory. They shape national memory as a dynamic system since each author give their personal interpretation in his/her work. The paper compares how different are authorial interpretations for the “realms of memory” in two works written in the same period: a collection of poems The Legend of the Ages by Victor Hugo and a novel Les Déracinés by Maurice Barrès. The new actualisations of a “realm of memory” in the literary works allows its new interpretations. However, the intrinsic relationship between the subject who remembers and the object of memory enables to create a “second degree history”, such as it was conceived by Nora, revealing how national memory has been constructed.
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spelling doaj.art-aafd74f1dd534ef9a71e967d21c6066b2022-12-21T19:26:34ZengPeoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University)RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics2313-22992411-12362017-12-01841219122710.22363/2313-2299-2017-8-4-1219-122716192“REALMS OF MEMORY” RECONSTRUCTED IN LITERARY DISCOURSESvetlana A Sheypak0<p>Российский университет дружбы народов</p>The paper suggests that literary discourse provides “realms of memory” that are necessary, according to Pierre Nora, for reconstructing national collective memory. If “realms of memory” are revealed in literary discourse, the selected “realms of memory” will not be overabundant and ideologically determined, as they are in the monumental edition “Realms of Memory” by Pierre Nora. Following Nora’s semiotic approach, the paper argues that “realms of memory” selected in literary discourse should be perceived as nodes in the national collective memory. They shape national memory as a dynamic system since each author give their personal interpretation in his/her work. The paper compares how different are authorial interpretations for the “realms of memory” in two works written in the same period: a collection of poems The Legend of the Ages by Victor Hugo and a novel Les Déracinés by Maurice Barrès. The new actualisations of a “realm of memory” in the literary works allows its new interpretations. However, the intrinsic relationship between the subject who remembers and the object of memory enables to create a “second degree history”, such as it was conceived by Nora, revealing how national memory has been constructed.http://journals.rudn.ru/semiotics-semantics/article/view/18000«места памяти»«вторичная история»художественный дискурслингви-стический поворот
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“REALMS OF MEMORY” RECONSTRUCTED IN LITERARY DISCOURSE
RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics
«места памяти»
«вторичная история»
художественный дискурс
лингви-стический поворот
title “REALMS OF MEMORY” RECONSTRUCTED IN LITERARY DISCOURSE
title_full “REALMS OF MEMORY” RECONSTRUCTED IN LITERARY DISCOURSE
title_fullStr “REALMS OF MEMORY” RECONSTRUCTED IN LITERARY DISCOURSE
title_full_unstemmed “REALMS OF MEMORY” RECONSTRUCTED IN LITERARY DISCOURSE
title_short “REALMS OF MEMORY” RECONSTRUCTED IN LITERARY DISCOURSE
title_sort realms of memory reconstructed in literary discourse
topic «места памяти»
«вторичная история»
художественный дискурс
лингви-стический поворот
url http://journals.rudn.ru/semiotics-semantics/article/view/18000
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