1st Edition
Cultures and Literatures in Dialogue The Narrative Construction of Russian Cultural Memory
Introduction: Rethinking literature through memory
Chapter 1: Cultural dimension of literary memory
Chapter 2: Narrative and memory in Julian Barnes
Chapter 3: Patterning transcultural readings of memory
Conclusion: Narrative irresolvability of memory
Biography
Elena Bollinger holds a PhD in English and American Studies from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Lisbon. She is currently a researcher at the University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies, and a member of the interdisciplinary project entitled ‘Shared Memories: Literatures and Cultures in English and Portuguese’. Close to both the Centre for Slavic Languages and Cultures and the Centre for Comparative Studies, she has been working on intercultural research involving memory, history and (trans)national identity within the scope of literary representations. She is also a member of Memory Studies Association.
