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THE DEVELOPMENT OF LITTLE POETS’ CORNER BETWEEN CULTURAL MEMORY AND GEOPOLITICS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2013

Maurizio Ascari
Maurizio Ascari*
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University of Bologna
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As Jan Assmann writes, the concept of “cultural memory” both “draws our attention to the role of the past in constituting our world” and also investigates “the motives that prompt our recourse to it” (ix). Cultural memory is transmitted through a variety of mediators ranging from texts and images to commemorative sites, whose complex aesthetic and ideological configurations – whether associated with trauma or glory – are a source of great interest. In his New Science (1725–44), Giambattista Vico claimed that “humanitas in Latin comes first and properly from humando” (8), highlighting the importance burial rituals had in the creation of civilised society. The commemoration of the dead is indeed at the core of cultural memory as the foundation on which the social compact between the living and the dead rests.

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Victorian Literature and Culture , Volume 41 , Issue 2 , June 2013 , pp. 345 - 370
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