Memory, Deconstructed and Reconstructed An Ontward Expression of an Inward Reality

Graduation Year

2013

Publication Date

4-2013

Comments

This project met the requirements for Honors in both French and Francophone Studies and English.

Abstract

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Lieux de Memoire, or "places of memory," are symbolic sites of national identity. Defined in Le Grand Robert de la langue franfaise, the term is attributed to French historian Pierre Nora. Nora has compiled two large project anthologies and several individual books of essays by various authors that identify and reflect upon symbolic sites of great national importance throughout France. Nora's various collections of work, span over "seven volumes, six thousand pages") and "more than one hundred and thirty authors" (Le Goff 118). The particular project of Nora's that I will focus on, titled Realms of Memory: The Construction of the French Past, includes: Volume 1: Conflicts and Divisions, Volume 2: Traditions, and Volume 3: Symbols. Here, I will examine and apply theories from Nora's third and final volume of this project, Symbols.

Disciplines

English Language and Literature | French and Francophone Language and Literature

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