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

Ladina Bezzola Lambert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3899429621 ISBN 13: 9783899429626

Publisher: Transcript Verlag, 2008

Synopsis

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 analyse 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.

About this title

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Transcript Verlag
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 3899429621
• ISBN 13: 9783899429626
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 228
• Editor: Ladina Bezzola Lambert, Andrea Ochsner