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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Bezzola Lambert, Ladina[Herausgeber]
• Ochsner, Andrea[Herausgeber]
• Hohl Trillini, Regula
• Jermann, Jennifer
• Marti, Markus

Titel

Moment to Monument : The Making and Unmaking of Cultural Significance

Ist Teil von

• Cultural Studies : 32

Auflage

1st ed

Link zum Volltext

• UTB Scholars Vollzugriff 2024

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Description based upon print version of record.
• Includes bibliographical references.
• Frontmatter 1 Table of Contents 5 Acknowledgements 7 Introduction 9 Texts, monuments and the desire for immortality 19 "Plunging into nothingness": The politics of cultural memory 35 A monumental inscription: The transcultural heritage of Swift's epitaph 51 Monuments and memorials: Byron and Wordsworth in post-Napoleonic Switzerland 71 "Monumental mockery": Does a three-text edition of Hamlet threaten the play's canonicity? 85 How the West was won: J.M. Coetzee and postcolonial canons 99 "We the people": The U.S. Government's recent recruitment of literature for nation building 111 Under the blue bottle : Habsburg nostalgia in post-Soviet L'viv 125 Monumentalizing the Twin Towers: Memory and garbage in the global city 139 Hurricane Katrina and the arts of remembrance 155 Revisiting Martyrs' Square again: Absence and presence in cultural memory 169 The burden of the moment: Photography's inherent monumentalizing effect 185 Coyote in the land of culture industry: Robert Crumb and popular cultural memory 197 Canons, orthodoxies, ghosts and dead statues 209 Contributors 223
• 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.
• Ladina Bezzola Lambert (Dr. phil.) works as a literary scholar and lecturer.
• Andrea Ochsner (PhD) teaches English Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Basel, Switzerland.
• English