Moment to Monument: The Making and Unmaking of Cultural Significance

Andrea Ochsner; Ladina Bezzola Lambert

doi:10.14361/9783839409626

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Edition: 1/2015
Copyright Year: 2015
ISBN-Print: 978-3-89942-962-6
ISBN-Online: 978-3-8394-0962-6
Publisher: transcript, Bielefeld
Series: Cultural Studies
Volume: 32
Language: English
Pages: 228
Product Type: Edited Book

Frontmatter Full access Pages 1 - 4
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Acknowledgements No access Pages 7 - 8
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Introduction No access Pages 9 - 16
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Texts, monuments and the desire for immortality No access Pages 19 - 34
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"Plunging into nothingness": The politics of cultural memory No access Pages 35 - 50
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A monumental inscription: The transcultural heritage of Swift''s epitaph No access Pages 51 - 70
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Monuments and memorials: Byron and Wordsworth in post-Napoleonic Switzerland No access Pages 71 - 82
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"Monumental mockery": Does a three-text edition of Hamlet threaten the play''s canonicity? No access Pages 85 - 98
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How the West was won: J.M. Coetzee and postcolonial canons No access Pages 99 - 110
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"We the people": The U.S. Government''s recent recruitment of literature for nation building No access Pages 111 - 122
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Under the blue bottle : Habsburg nostalgia in post-Soviet L''viv No access Pages 125 - 138
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Monumentalizing the Twin Towers: Memory and garbage in the global city No access Pages 139 - 154
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Hurricane Katrina and the arts of remembrance No access Pages 155 - 168
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Revisiting Martyrs'' Square … again: Absence and presence in cultural memory No access Pages 169 - 182
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The burden of the moment: Photography''s inherent monumentalizing effect No access Pages 185 - 196
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Coyote in the land of culture industry: Robert Crumb and popular cultural memory No access Pages 197 - 208
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Canons, orthodoxies, ghosts and dead statues No access Pages 209 - 222
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Contributors No access Pages 223 - 228
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