Anime and Memory: Aesthetic, Cultural and Thematic Perspectives
Added by: miaow | Karma: 8463.40 | Other | 5 September 2015
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The topos of memory has played a significant role in anime over the course of its evolution as an art form and as a popular form of entertainment. Anime's handling of memory is multifaceted, bringing it into collusion with diverse symbolic motifs, narrative themes, and aesthetic issues. This study aims to provide a detailed analysis of a range of anime titles wherein different aspects of this cultural phenomenon are articulated.
Why Homer Matters is a magical journey of discovery across wide stretches of the past, sewn together by the poems themselves and their metaphors of life and trouble. Homer’s poems occupy, as Adam Nicolson writes “a third space” in the way we relate to the past: not as memory, which lasts no more than three generations, nor as the objective accounts of history, but as epic, invented after memory but before history, poetry which aims “to bind the wounds that time inflicts.”
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Focusing on literary texts produced from 2000 to 2009, Lorraine Ryan examines the imbrication between the preservation of Republican memory and the transformations of Spanish public space during the period from 1931 to 2005. Accordingly, Ryan analyzes the spatial empowerment and disempowerment of Republican memory and identity in Dulce Chacón s Cielos de barro, Ángeles López s Martina, la rosa número trece, Alberto Méndez s Los girasoles ciegos, Carlos Ruiz Zafón´s La sombra del viento, Emili Teixidor s Pan negro, Bernardo Atxaga s El hijo del acordeonista, and José María Merino s La sima.