Monumental space in the post-imperial novel
Subtitle: an interdisciplinary study
By: Rita Sakr
Publisher: Continuum logo
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781441112699
Subjects: Fiction; Public spaces in literature; History and criticism; Theory; Monuments in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Reading monumental space at the crossroads of disciplines; title: "Broken pillars": counter-monumental tactics in James Joyce's Ulysses; title: Burning temples and falling empires: unraveling arsonists' dreams in Yukio Mishima's The temple of the golden pavilion; title: A history of violence: martyrs' square and the fractured space of memory in Rashid al-Daif's Dear Mr. Kawabata; title: Tabooed spaces of greatness and shame: monumentalization and the representation of terror and trauma in Orhan Pamuk's The black book and snow; title: Postscript post-2011: monumental space and the collapse of arab dictatorships.