Moment to Monument : : The Making and Unmaking of Cultural Significance /

Moment to Monument : : The Making and Unmaking of Cultural Significance / / ed. by Andrea Ochsner, Ladina Bezzola Lambert.

Why do certain works of art make it into the canon while others just enjoy a brief moment of recognition, if at all? How do moments produce monuments, and why are monuments erased from our cultural memory in only a moment? - Taking into account these cultural processes of creating, storing, remember...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter transcript Backlist eBook Package 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Assmann, Aleida,
Burleigh, Peter,
Dados, Nour,
Dávidházi, Péter,
Fuisz, Lisbeth,
Glaubitz, Nicola,
Hohl Trillini, Regula,
Hui, Andrew,
Jermann, Jennifer,
Junyk, Ihor,
Lindner, Christoph,
Marti, Markus,
Morley, David,
Morris, Benjamin,
Saint, Lily,
Thompson, Ann,
Vincent, Patrick,
HerausgeberIn:
Bezzola Lambert, Ladina,
Ochsner, Andrea,
Place / Publishing House:Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2015]
©2008
Year of Publication:2015
Edition:1. Aufl.
Language:English
Series:Cultural Studies ; 32
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Physical Description:1 online resource (228 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • 1. exegi monumentum
  • Texts, monuments and the desire for immortality
  • “Plunging into nothingness”: The politics of cultural memory
  • A monumental inscription: The transcultural heritage of Swift’s epitaph
  • Monuments and memorials: Byron and Wordsworth in post-Napoleonic Switzerland
  • 2. questioning canon politics
  • “Monumental mockery”: Does a three-text edition of Hamlet threaten the play’s canonicity?
  • How the West was won: J.M. Coetzee and postcolonial canons
  • “We the people”: The U.S. Government’s recent recruitment of literature for nation building
  • 3. negotiating the past – imagining the future
  • Under the blue bottle : Habsburg nostalgia in post-Soviet L’viv
  • Monumentalizing the Twin Towers: Memory and garbage in the global city
  • Hurricane Katrina and the arts of remembrance
  • Revisiting Martyrs’ Square … again: Absence and presence in cultural memory
  • 4. reterritorialization
  • The burden of the moment: Photography’s inherent monumentalizing effect
  • Coyote in the land of culture industry: Robert Crumb and popular cultural memory
  • Canons, orthodoxies, ghosts and dead statues
  • Contributors

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