The mnemonic imagination

remembering as creative practice

Emily Keightley

Michael Pickering

Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies | 1

Palgrave Macmillan

2012

Abstract

An exploration of some of the key theoretical challenges and conceptual issues facing the emergent field of memory studies, from the relationship between experience and memory to the commercial exploitation of nostalgia, using the key concept of the mnemonic imagination.