Most cited papers in Literature and Cultural Memory

Literature and Cultural Memory

What are the most cited papers in Literature and Cultural Memory?

The most cited paper in Literature and Cultural Memory is "Why Buildings Are Known" (Donald Appleyard, 1969), with 283 citations. Next come "Artist of Dissonance: Albrecht Wellmer and Critical Theory" (211) and "Post‐Soviet Hauntology: Cultural Memory of the Soviet Terror" (142).

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Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 24 citations is listed.

Most cited papers, sortable by citations and release date
#	Paper
1	Why Buildings Are Known Donald Appleyard · Environment and Behavior	Dec 1969	283
2	Artist of Dissonance: Albrecht Wellmer and Critical Theory Axel Honneth · Constellations	31 Aug 2007	211
3	Post‐Soviet Hauntology: Cultural Memory of the Soviet Terror Alexander Etkind · Constellations	Mar 2009	142
4	The spectral geographies of W.G. Sebald John W. Wylie · Cultural Geographies	Apr 2007	134
5	Genre Memories and Memory Genres: A Dialogical Analysis of May 8, 1945 Commemorations in the Federal Republic of Germany Jeffrey K. Olick · American Sociological Review	Jun 1999	130
6	Cultural Techniques: Or the End of the Intellectual Postwar Era in German Media Theory Bernhard Siegert · Theory Culture & Society	21 Aug 2013	125
7	An Essay on Sabotage and Obstruction Johan van Benthem · Trends in logic Book chapter	2005	122
8	The Post-ecologist condition: Irony as symptom and cure Bronislaw Szerszynski · Environmental Politics	Apr 2007	116
9	Famous trails to Paul Erdős Rodrigo Aquino Castro, Jerrold W. Grossman · The Mathematical Intelligencer	Sep 1999	106
10	THE BELEAGUERED ISLE. A STUDY OF ELIZABETHAN AND EARLY JACOBEAN ANTI-CATHOLICISM Carol Z. Wiener · Past & Present	1971	99
11	The Guilt of Nations? Jeffrey K. Olick · Ethics & International Affairs	Sep 2003	88
12	Reviving Dead Zones Laurence Mee · Scientific American	Nov 2006	86
13	Katechon: Carl Schmitt's Imperial Theology and the Ruins of the Future Julia Hell · The Germanic Review Literature Culture Theory	30 Sep 2009	83
14	Umrisse des populistischen Narrativs als Identitätspolitik Karin Priester Book chapter	9 Aug 2018	79
15	The Affective Turn in Contemporary Fiction Nancy J. Armstrong · Contemporary Literature	2014	76
16	The Grammar of Identity: Transnational Fiction and the Nature of the Boundary Stephen Clingman	8 Jan 2009	70
17	Ruins. An Aesthetic Hybrid Paul A. Zucker · Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism	1961	69
18	Ethosof Diffraction: New Paradigms for a (Post)humanist Ethics Kathrin Thiele · Parallax Open access	3 Jul 2014	68
19	Kollektives Gedächtnis und Erinnerungskulturen Astrid Erll · J.B. Metzler eBooks Book chapter	2008	65
20	Scripts and the Development of Memory Katherine M. Nelson, Robyn Fıvush, Judith A. Hudson et al. · Contributions to human development Book chapter	16 Apr 2015	65
21	Different Atmospheres: Of Sloterdijk, China, and Site Nigel J. Thrift · Environment and Planning D Society and Space	2009	65
22	Phytopoetics Joela Jacobs · Catalyst Feminism Theory Technoscience Open access	9 Dec 2019	62
23	Cacography or Communication? Cultural Techniques in German Media Studies Bernhard Siegert · Grey Room	Oct 2007	62
24	Über die papierchromatographische und papierelektrophoretische Trennung von Indolderivaten Adolf Fischer · Planta	Mar 1954	60
25	The Poetic Turn in Postmodern Anthropology: The Poetry of Paul Friedrich Stephen A. Tyler · American Anthropologist	Jun 1984	57
26	Lost and Found: Disorientation, Nostalgia, and Holocaust Melodrama in Sebald's Austerlitz John Zilcosky · MLN	Apr 2006	56
27	The Infrastructures of Diversity: Materiality and Culture in Urban Space – An Introduction Marian Burchardt, Höhne, Stefan · Max Planck Digital Library Open access	2015	54
28	Eine erweiterte Extended Now-Theorie für Perfekt und Futur Arnim von Stechow · Zeitschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik	Mar 1999	54
29	Gravity's Rainbow and The Culture of Childhood Strother B. Purdy · Pynchon Notes Open access	22 Sep 1988	52
30	Thinking the Feminine Griselda Pollock · Theory Culture & Society	Feb 2004	50
31	Was ist ein Medium? Thomas Möck · Publizistik	Jun 2006	48
32	A Kind of Hell: Roberto Bolaño and The Return of World Literature Sergio Roberto Villalobos Ruminott · Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies	Dec 2009	48
33	Reading the Ruins: Modernism, Bombsites and British Culture Leo Mellor	18 Aug 2011	48
34	Demo Eduardo Cuervo, Alec Wolman, Landon P. Cox et al. Conference paper	30 May 2014	46
35	“Doors into Nowhere”: Dead Cities and the Natural History of Destruction Derek Gregory · Knowledge and space Book chapter	2011	45
36	Wagner-Dampf: Steam in Der Ring des Nibelungen and Operatic Production Gundula Kreuzer · The Opera Quarterly	Sep 2011	45
37	Totalitarian Tears: Does the Crowd Really Mean It? William Mazzarella · Cultural Anthropology Open access	9 Feb 2015	45
38	Spiegelman’s magic box: MetaMaus and the archive of representation Elisabeth R. Friedman · Studies in Comics	Dec 2012	44
39	The Literary Motif of the Exposed Child (cf. Ex. ii 1-10) Donald Bruce Redford · Numen	1967	44
40	Memoro-politics, trauma and the soul Ian Hacking · History of the Human Sciences Open access	May 1994	43
41	Hildegard Westerkamp's Kits Beach Soundwalk: shifting perspectives in real world music David Kolber · Organised Sound	Apr 2002	43
42	Metamaterial ‘multiverse’ Igor I. Smolyaninov · Journal of Optics Open access	16 Nov 2010	42
43	The Angel's Enigmatic Eyes, or The Gothic Beauty of Catastrophic History in W. G. Sebald's "Air War and Literature" Julia Hell · Criticism	2004	42
44	Die Literaturwissenschaften und der spatial turn: Ansätze bei Jurij Lotman und Michail Bachtin Michael C. Frank · transcript Verlag eBooks Book chapterOpen access	31 Dec 2009	41
45	Alain Badiou's anabasis: rereading Paul Celan against Heidegger Tom Betteridge · Textual Practice Open access	24 Jul 2015	41
46	Schwellenkunde Walter Benjamins Passage des Mythos Winfried Menninghaus	1986	41
47	Narrative As Counter-Memory: A Half-Century of Postwar Writing in Germany and Japan. Gregory Polakoff · Pacific Affairs	Jun 1999	40
48	On Creaturely Life: Rilke, Benjamin, Sebald Alyda Faber · Ars Disputandi Open access	2007	40
49	Rhetoric's Other: Lisbeth A. Lipari · Philosophy and Rhetoric	6 Aug 2012	40
50	Obscene Anglo-Norman in a Central French Mouth; or, How Renart the Fox Tricks Isengrin the Wolf, and Why It Is Important William Calin · Florilegium	2001	39

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