Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Cultural Memory Studies: An Introduction -- Loci memoriae-Lieux de mémoire -- Italian luoghi della memoria -- Mitteleuropa as a lieu de mémoire -- Sites of Memory in U.S.-American Histories and Cultures -- Sites of Memory and the Shadow of War -- Memory and the History of Mentalities -- The Invention of Cultural Memory -- Canon and Archive -- Communicative and Cultural Memory -- Generation/Generationality, Generativity, and Memory -- Cultural Memory: A European Perspective -- Maurice Halbwachs's mémoire collective -- From Collective Memory to the Sociology of Mnemonic Practices and Products -- Memory in Post-Authoritarian Societies -- Memory and Politics -- Social Forgetting: A Systems-Theory Approach -- Memory and Remembrance: A Constructivist Approach -- Memory and Forgetting in Paul Ricoeur's Theory ofthe Capable Self -- Psychology, Narrative, and Cultural Memory: Past and Present -- Against the Concept of Cultural Trauma -- Experience and Memory: Imaginary Futures in the Past -- A Cognitive Taxonomy of Collective Memories -- Language and Memory: Social and Cognitive Processes -- Cultural Memory and the Neurosciences -- Communicative Memory -- Mnemonic and Intertextual Aspects of Literature -- Cultural Memory and the Literary Canon -- Life-Writing, Cultural Memory, and Literary Studies -- The Literary Representation of Memory -- The Dynamics of Remembrance: Texts Between Monumentality and Morphing -- The Texture of Memory: Holocaust Memorials in History -- The Photograph as Externalization and Trace -- Journalism's Memory Work -- Literature, Film, and the Mediality of Cultural Memory -- Memory and Media Cultures -- Backmatter.