Book | Chapter
Memory and the fictional imagination
creating memories
pp. 63-66
Abstract
At the end of Woody Allen's film Another Woman (1988), the question is asked: "Is a memory something you have or something you"ve lost?" This is a pleasing formulation because of the resonance with the idea that a memory may be treasured — a mental keepsake — but also a placemarker for something departed. A memory is perhaps what the mind has left of something the individual has lost; sometimes it is all we have left.
Publication details
Published in:
Groes Sebastian (2016) Memory in the twenty-first century: new critical perspectives from the arts, humanities, and sciences. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
Pages: 63-66
Full citation:
Childs Peter (2016) „Memory and the fictional imagination: creating memories“, In: S. Groes (ed.), Memory in the twenty-first century, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 63–66.