Moment to Monument: The Making and Unmaking of Cultural Significance (Cultural Studies) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3899429621 ISBN 13: 9783899429626

Verlag: transcript, 2008

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Why do certain works of art make it into the canon while othersjust enjoy a brief moment of recognition, if at all? How domoments produce monuments, and why are monuments erasedfrom our cultural memory in only a moment? Taking into accountthe cultural processes of creating, storing, rememberingand forgetting that are omnipresent and have an immenseinfluence on how we perceive artifacts and cultural events, theessays in this collection analyze the phenomenon of culturalproduction, transmission and reception from various angles,drawing on approaches from both literary and cultural studies.With its transdisciplinary approach, this book uniquely respondsto an everyday cultural phenomenon that so far has not receivedwide-ranging attention.

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Ladina Bezzola Lambert (Dr. phil.) works as a literary scholar and lecturer. Andrea Ochsner (lic. phil.) teaches English Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Basel, Switzerland.

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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.

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• Verlag: transcript
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 3899429621
• ISBN 13: 9783899429626
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 227
• Herausgeber: Lambert Ladina Bezzola, Ochsner Andrea
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: transcript Verlag; live@transcript-verlag.de; ; Hermannstraße 26; Bielefeld; 33602; Deutschland