Answer to Question #312626 in English for Nono

Question

The poem 'TESTIMONY ' by Chris Mann

1.2 The word 'but ' in line 7 indicates a shift in the poem. What change occurs here? ((2))

1.3 In lines 9-11, the speaker mentions numerous aspects of life that have influenced his relationships with the addressee. Describe one of the life events that the speaker mentions. What did the experience teach the speaker and his partner about love ? ((3))

Answer 1

Cultural memory studies came into being at the beginning of the twentieth century, with the works of Maurice Halbwachs on mémoire collective. In the course of the last two decades this area of research has witnessed a verita-ble boom in various countries and disciplines. As a consequence, the study of the relations between culture and memory has diversified into a broad range of approaches. Today, the complex issue of cultural memory is re-markably interdisciplinary: Concepts of cultural memory circulate in his-tory, the social and political sciences, philosophy and theology, psychol-ogy, the neurosciences, and psychoanalysis, as well as in literary and media studies. Sometimes these concepts converge; at other times they seem to exclude one another; and all too often, researchers in one discipline seem to take no notice of the work done in neighboring disciplines