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Moment to monument, the making and unmaking of cultural significance, Ladina Bezzola Lambert, Andrea Ochsner (eds.) ; in collaboration with Regula Hohl Trillini, Jennifer Jermann and Markus Marti

Label
Moment to monument, the making and unmaking of cultural significance, Ladina Bezzola Lambert, Andrea Ochsner (eds.) ; in collaboration with Regula Hohl Trillini, Jennifer Jermann and Markus Marti
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
no index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Moment to monument
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
286349125
Responsibility statement
Ladina Bezzola Lambert, Andrea Ochsner (eds.) ; in collaboration with Regula Hohl Trillini, Jennifer Jermann and Markus Marti
Series statement
Cultural studies, v. 32
Sub title
the making and unmaking of cultural significance
Table Of Contents
Texts, monuments and the desire for immortality / Andrew Hui -- "Plunging into nothingness" : the politics of cultural memory / Aleida Assmann -- A monumental inscription : the transcultural heritage of Swift's epitaph / Péter Dávidházi -- Monuments and memorials : Byron and Wordsworth in post-Napoleonic Switzerland / Patrick Vincent -- "Monumental mockery" : does a three-text edition of Hamlet threaten the play's canonicity? / Ann Thompson -- How the West was won : J.M. Coetzee and postcolonial canons / Lily Saint -- "We the people" : the U.S. government's recent recruitment of literature for nation building / Lisbeth Fuisz -- Under the blue bottle : Habsburg nostalgia in post-Soviet L'viv / Ihor Junyk -- Monumentalizing the Twin Towers : memory and garbage in the global city / Christoph Lindner -- Hurricane Katrina and the arts of remembrance / Benjamin Morris -- Revisiting Martyrs' Square... again : absence and presence in cultural memory / Nour Dados -- The burden of the moment : photography's inherent monumentalizing effect / Peter Burleigh -- Coyote in the land of culture industry : Robert Crumb and popular cultural memory / Nicola Glaubitz -- Canons, orthodoxies, ghosts and dead statues / David Morley
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