Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-306) and index
Modern memory -- Mediated memory -- Oral memory and the anger of Achilleus -- Scripts of empire: remembering Virgil in Barometer rising -- Cinematic memory in Owen, Remarque, and Harrison -- "Spectral images": the double vision of Siegfried Sassoon -- Photographic memory: "a force of interruption" in The wars -- A play of light: dramatizing relativity in R.H. Thomson's The lost boys -- Electronic memory: "a new Homeric mode" on History Television -- Sound bytes in the archive and the museum -- Conclusion