' Memory in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Sebastian Groes, is a remarkable achievement.

Groes's passion for both modes of exploration has resulted in this superb collection of essays.' - Ian McEwan, Booker Prize-winning author of Enduring Love, Atonement and The Children Act Memory and consciousness have always been the lifeblood of literary expression in the past thirty years they have become subjects of scientific enquiry. He has brilliantly enlivened and widened that contested space where science and the humanities meet. He has enlisted poets, novelists, psychologists, neuroscientists and philosophers to his cause. To achieve this he has drawn widely from other disciplines including the cognitive sciences. His project, it seems, is to restore English studies (still languishing after its long dalliance with 'theory') to a central role in our intellectual culture. Katherine Hayles, Professor of Literature and Director of Graduate Studies, Literature Program, Duke University, USA 'As teacher, writer and editor, Sebastian Groes is one of the most interesting figures of his generation. Readers will find an equally rich range of references, including novels, films, poems and art works, in addition to what seems like the entire scholarly repertoire of works on, about, and relating to memory across the centuries in Western culture.' - N.

Bringing together an interdisciplinary mix of scientists, cultural critics, philosophers, writers and literary critics, it ranges across a diverse set of topics, including memory as metaphor, anticipation, ecology, subjectivity and even memory's seeming antithesis, forgetting. Groes's passion for both modes of exploration has resulted in this superb collection of essays.' - Ian McEwan, Booker Prize-winning author of Enduring Love, Atonement and The Children Act ' Memory in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Sebastian Groes, is a remarkable achievement.

'As teacher, writer and editor, Sebastian Groes is one of the most interesting figures of his generation.

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