ARS MEMORIAE: JAPANESE LITERARY HISTORY AS APPLIED CULTURAL MEMORY
ARS MEMORIAE: JAPANESE LITERARY HISTORY AS APPLIED CULTURAL MEMORY

Summary/Abstract: Ars Memoriae: Japanese Literary History as Applied Cultural Memory. With the starting point of the cult of the dead in Japanese folklore, which is based on an "ordered" process of forgetting, demanding that "the departed" be forgotten "carefully", the present study proposes to analyse the pragmatics of cultural memory exemplified by Japanese literary history. Seeing that one of the meanings of "remembering" also implies "to do something", it is to be explored, through a hermeneutical and cultural semiotics analysis, the way in which this particular type of memory archives the Japanese literary heritage, through the mediation of which one attempts to recall the past and understand history.

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