Monumental space in the post-imperial novel : an interdisciplinary study /
There has been a proliferation in recent scholarship of studies of monuments and their histories and of theoretical positions that shed light on aspects of their meanings. However, just as monuments mark their territory by attempting to ensure the existence of boundaries, so these discourses set a b...
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London :
Continuum International Publishing,
2012.
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Table of Contents:
- Reading monumental space at the crossroads of disciplines
- "Broken pillars": counter-monumental tactics in James Joyce's Ulysses
- Burning temples and falling empires: unraveling arsonists' dreams in Yukio Mishima's The temple of the golden pavilion
- A history of violence: martyrs' square and the fractured space of memory in Rashid al-Daif's Dear Mr. Kawabata
- Tabooed spaces of greatness and shame: monumentalization and the representation of terror and trauma in Orhan Pamuk's The black book and snow
- Postscript post-2011: monumental space and the collapse of arab dictatorships.
