ALG 1100 Study Guide - Final Guide: East Germany, Wartburg, Nibelungenlied

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: German Language and Culture
• Course: ALG 1100
• Professor: Joerg Esleben

Document Summary

Mentalities, media, language, etc. used to refer to the essential nature of a particular people i. e. quebecois culture. Individual: internal cognitive process where an individual remembers their past. Communicative: requires direct contact; storytelling that doesn"t surpass 3 generations. Cultural: mediated communication; society selects significant aspects of the past. Never fixed and static, it is always changing. Archive: everything that has been preserved from the past. Canon: only those aspects that are selected and invested with a high degree of significance in shaping cultural memory. Items can be recovered from the archive" and inserted into the canon" by being newly valuated as highly significant; conversely, items from the canon" can lose their significance and be relegated to the archive". Memory sites: significant points around which cultural memory crystallizes. Continue through long periods of time: open to re-interpretations. Around 15 bc, the majority of today"s austria was annexed to the roman empire.