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* see [[Chartier 1994]]
 
* see [[Chartier 1994]]
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==Lecture==
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* "Memory and Forgetting in Don Quijote"
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* in tradition of French histoire du livre, history of the book as social history
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* '''l/u''' Ricoeur 2000, dialectic between memory and forgetting
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** memory as '''struggle''' against forgetting
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** his intervention: no sense of socio/historical difference
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* 2 modalities: memory as mental evocation (passive/active), memory and writing: memory embodied in material writing forms
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** the latter in DQ: librillo de memoria, erasable tablet for reuse
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*** the relationship between memory and writing is ambivalent and fragile
 +
**** traces are erasable
 +
*** the librillo de memoria as material embodiment of the polarity between backup-forgetting and forgetting through effacement, just such an archive of memory
 +
**** backup-forgetting as key to memory: Heidegger -- forgetting makes memory possible (Being & Time); Ferud: remembering doesn't happen without mourning
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* 2 forms of writing surface: paper and slate
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** paper preserves but is exhaustible
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** slate has unlimited reception but not preservable
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** Freud: magic pad which keeps residue of inscription as a material analogy for apparatus of psychic structure
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* words are never safe from oblivion and interruption in DQ, and Cervantes uses a common object of his own writing culture to highlight this fundamental tension
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** [[Piper 2009]]: literary works as engagements with the bibliographic imaginary of their time
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* Borges's Funes: absolute memory, "memory as garbage disposal" - he can't think
 +
** "To think is to forget, to generalize, to abstract," not remembering
 +
** inverting Freud's psychic structure
 +
* personal memory / collective memory: DQ remembers his experience on the one hand (not very well, or from before the novel starts), and his reading on the other
 +
** mobilizing quotes in his memory
 +
** labor of memory furnishing quotes to allow him to overcome circumstances, give meaning to the world
 +
** collective framework of personal recollection
 +
* Borges, "Shakespeare's Memory"
 +
** erasure is necessary but  traces remain
 +
* Reading Don Q with categories from 400 years later -- Febvre ([[Febrve & Martin 1958]]) was against
 +
** deliberate anachronism
 +
** '''virtual intentions activated by latent potentialities inscribed in the work itself'''
 +
** articulating historical identity of a specific object articulated by Cervantes' fiction with transhistorical categories, spontaneously mobilized
 +
** is this latency inscribed or by the exchange with interpretation? Act of violence or of activation? Unclear
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* Aristotle, memory as quest
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* '''Libraries'''
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** externalizations/prostheses of memory
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** inscribed in series - library
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** memory as mental > in the Renaissance, constructed prostheses of memory (library, archives)
 +
** looking in each historical situation at the devices uses to tame the fear of overload and forgetting - what were the practices?
 +
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==Seminar==
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* recs for library history:
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**4 vol. Histoire Bibliotheque Francaise
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** History of bibliographic classification in German
 +
** Ricoeur, but you need someone inbetween
 +
* Translation and the untranslatable
 +
*'''mobility and plurality of texts for same work'''
 +
** authorship/anonymity
 +
** materialities: feuilleton, fascicle
 +
** horizons of expectation
 +
* immigration of same work between languages and between genres
 +
* '''it's too easy to imagine the book market succeeding patronage system - at least from the invention of print they exist simultaneously and ebb and flow between each other'''
 +
** the relationship does change as post-C18 when the work itself is commodified - see [[Chartier 1994]] 37
 +
* "Chronogeography" of translation of DQ
 +
** the "noncontemporaneity of Europe" - Moretti, Atlas of Euro Novel
 +
*** Shakespeare unknown except in the UK and Germany until the late C18
 +
* Transmediation of Don Q - festivals, etc. - could be useful for Dickens
 +
** DQ in beatification ceremonies - "lo picaresco" - for St Teresa de Avila, Ignatius of Loyola
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*** St Teresa in [[Middlemarch (Eliot, 1872)]] - imbrication of the novel form with her story from early on
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** circulation of fragments, not part of novel's horizon of expectations
 +
* '''To follow editions, translations, and appropriations is to follow permanent reinvention'''
 +
** not just circulation: mobility, instability, inventivity
 +
** agents: publishers, playwrights, etc etc
 +
* not comparative histories but '''connected histories''' (Sanjay something - '''l/u''')
 +
** not separate and comparable but inseperable
 +
* '''l/u''' Swiss book about Tang poetry translation

Latest revision as of 11:38, 7 April 2018

Lecture

  • "Memory and Forgetting in Don Quijote"
  • in tradition of French histoire du livre, history of the book as social history
  • l/u Ricoeur 2000, dialectic between memory and forgetting
    • memory as struggle against forgetting
    • his intervention: no sense of socio/historical difference
  • 2 modalities: memory as mental evocation (passive/active), memory and writing: memory embodied in material writing forms
    • the latter in DQ: librillo de memoria, erasable tablet for reuse
      • the relationship between memory and writing is ambivalent and fragile
        • traces are erasable
      • the librillo de memoria as material embodiment of the polarity between backup-forgetting and forgetting through effacement, just such an archive of memory
        • backup-forgetting as key to memory: Heidegger -- forgetting makes memory possible (Being & Time); Ferud: remembering doesn't happen without mourning
  • 2 forms of writing surface: paper and slate
    • paper preserves but is exhaustible
    • slate has unlimited reception but not preservable
    • Freud: magic pad which keeps residue of inscription as a material analogy for apparatus of psychic structure
  • words are never safe from oblivion and interruption in DQ, and Cervantes uses a common object of his own writing culture to highlight this fundamental tension
    • Piper 2009: literary works as engagements with the bibliographic imaginary of their time
  • Borges's Funes: absolute memory, "memory as garbage disposal" - he can't think
    • "To think is to forget, to generalize, to abstract," not remembering
    • inverting Freud's psychic structure
  • personal memory / collective memory: DQ remembers his experience on the one hand (not very well, or from before the novel starts), and his reading on the other
    • mobilizing quotes in his memory
    • labor of memory furnishing quotes to allow him to overcome circumstances, give meaning to the world
    • collective framework of personal recollection
  • Borges, "Shakespeare's Memory"
    • erasure is necessary but traces remain
  • Reading Don Q with categories from 400 years later -- Febvre (Febrve & Martin 1958) was against
    • deliberate anachronism
    • virtual intentions activated by latent potentialities inscribed in the work itself
    • articulating historical identity of a specific object articulated by Cervantes' fiction with transhistorical categories, spontaneously mobilized
    • is this latency inscribed or by the exchange with interpretation? Act of violence or of activation? Unclear
  • Aristotle, memory as quest
  • Libraries
    • externalizations/prostheses of memory
    • inscribed in series - library
    • memory as mental > in the Renaissance, constructed prostheses of memory (library, archives)
    • looking in each historical situation at the devices uses to tame the fear of overload and forgetting - what were the practices?

Seminar

  • recs for library history:
    • 4 vol. Histoire Bibliotheque Francaise
    • History of bibliographic classification in German
    • Ricoeur, but you need someone inbetween
  • Translation and the untranslatable
  • mobility and plurality of texts for same work
    • authorship/anonymity
    • materialities: feuilleton, fascicle
    • horizons of expectation
  • immigration of same work between languages and between genres
  • it's too easy to imagine the book market succeeding patronage system - at least from the invention of print they exist simultaneously and ebb and flow between each other
    • the relationship does change as post-C18 when the work itself is commodified - see Chartier 1994 37
  • "Chronogeography" of translation of DQ
    • the "noncontemporaneity of Europe" - Moretti, Atlas of Euro Novel
      • Shakespeare unknown except in the UK and Germany until the late C18
  • Transmediation of Don Q - festivals, etc. - could be useful for Dickens
    • DQ in beatification ceremonies - "lo picaresco" - for St Teresa de Avila, Ignatius of Loyola
    • circulation of fragments, not part of novel's horizon of expectations
  • To follow editions, translations, and appropriations is to follow permanent reinvention
    • not just circulation: mobility, instability, inventivity
    • agents: publishers, playwrights, etc etc
  • not comparative histories but connected histories (Sanjay something - l/u)
    • not separate and comparable but inseperable
  • l/u Swiss book about Tang poetry translation
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