Moment to Monument
The Making and Unmaking of Cultural Significance
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, remembering and forgetting that are omnipresent and have an immense influence on how we perceive artefacts and cultural events, the articles in this collection analyze the phenomenon of cultural production, transmission and reception from various angles, drawing on approaches from both literary and cultural studies. With its transdisciplinary approach, this book uniquely responds to an everyday cultural phenomenon that so far has not received such wide-ranging attention.
Kapitel-Übersicht
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Frontmatter
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Table of Contents
Seiten 5 - 6 -
Acknowledgements
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Introduction
Seiten 9 - 16 -
1. exegi monumentum
Texts, monuments and the desire for immortality
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"Plunging into nothingness": The politics of cultural memory
Seiten 35 - 50 -
A monumental inscription: The transcultural heritage of Swift's epitaph
Seiten 51 - 70 -
Monuments and memorials: Byron and Wordsworth in post-Napoleonic Switzerland
Seiten 71 - 82 -
2. questioning canon politics
"Monumental mockery": Does a three-text edition of Hamlet threaten the play's canonicity?
Seiten 85 - 98 -
How the West was won: J.M. Coetzee and postcolonial canons
Seiten 99 - 110 -
"We the people": The U.S. Government's recent recruitment of literature for nation building
Seiten 111 - 122 -
3. negotiating the past - imagining the future
Under the blue bottle : Habsburg nostalgia in post-Soviet L'viv
Seiten 125 - 138 -
Monumentalizing the Twin Towers: Memory and garbage in the global city
Seiten 139 - 154 -
Hurricane Katrina and the arts of remembrance
Seiten 155 - 168 -
Revisiting Martyrs' Square … again: Absence and presence in cultural memory
Seiten 169 - 182 -
4. reterritorialization
The burden of the moment: Photography's inherent monumentalizing effect
Seiten 185 - 196 -
Coyote in the land of culture industry: Robert Crumb and popular cultural memory
Seiten 197 - 208 -
Canons, orthodoxies, ghosts and dead statues
Seiten 209 - 222 -
Contributors
Seiten 223 - 228
27. Juli 2015, 228 Seiten
ISBN: 978-3-8394-0962-6
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