Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. Acknowledgements 7
4. Introduction 9
5. 1. exegi monumentum
6. Texts, monuments and the desire for immortality 19
7. “Plunging into nothingness”: The politics of cultural memory 35
8. A monumental inscription: The transcultural heritage of Swift’s epitaph 51
9. Monuments and memorials: Byron and Wordsworth in post-Napoleonic Switzerland 71
10. 2. questioning canon politics
11. “Monumental mockery”: Does a three-text edition of Hamlet threaten the play’s canonicity? 85
12. How the West was won: J.M. Coetzee and postcolonial canons 99
13. “We the people”: The U.S. Government’s recent recruitment of literature for nation building 111
14. 3. negotiating the past – imagining the future
15. Under the blue bottle : Habsburg nostalgia in post-Soviet L’viv 125
16. Monumentalizing the Twin Towers: Memory and garbage in the global city 139
17. Hurricane Katrina and the arts of remembrance 155
18. Revisiting Martyrs’ Square … again: Absence and presence in cultural memory 169
19. 4. reterritorialization
20. The burden of the moment: Photography’s inherent monumentalizing effect 185
21. Coyote in the land of culture industry: Robert Crumb and popular cultural memory 197
22. Canons, orthodoxies, ghosts and dead statues 209
23. Contributors 223