[ecrea] New Book - The Mnemonic Imagination: Remembering as Creative Practice

The Mnemonic Imagination: Remembering as Creative Practice



Emily Keightley and Michael Pickering



Exploring the creative dimensions of memory and remembering, Emily 
Keightley and Michael

Pickering tackle some of the key questions facing the emergent field of 
memory studies, including

the nature of the relationship between memory and experience and between 
individual and

collective memory. The most crucial relationship examined is one which 
has previously been

largely ignored: the relationship between memory and imagination. The 
book argues for the

importance of bringing imagination into the purview of memory studies 
and introduces the key

concept of the mnemonic imagination as a tool for demonstrating the 
mutual interaction of

memory and imagination in our everyday practices and processes of making 
sense of experience.

Showing how the mnemonic imagination works in various aspects of 
personal life and popular

culture, the authors address diverse topics such as the commercial 
exploitation of nostalgia and

the remembering of traumatic and painful pasts.



CONTENTS:

An Outline of What Lies Ahead

Memory and Experience

The Mnemonic Imagination

Personal and Popular Memory

The Reclamation of Nostalgia

The Foreclosure of Mnemonic Imagining

Creative Memory and Painful Pasts

Coda



EMILY KEIGHTLEY is Lecturer in Communication and Media Studies at 
Loughborough University,

UK. She has published her research on time, memory and everyday life in 
a number of international

journals. She is the editor of Time, Media and Modernity and is 
currently co-editing Research

Methods for Memory Studies with Michael Pickering. She is also Assistant 
Editor of Media, Culture

and Society.



MICHAEL PICKERING is Professor of Media and Cultural Analysis at 
Loughborough University, UK.

He has published in the areas of social and cultural history, the 
sociology of art and culture, and

media and communication studies. His most recent books include Researching

Communications (2007); Blackface Minstrelsy in Britain (2008); Research 
Methods for Cultural

Studies (2008); and Popular Culture, a four-volume edited collection (2010).



September 2012 Hardback £50.00 978-0-230-24336-1



Available also as ebook



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