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C'est le paradoxe du monument moderne que ce livre se propose d'explorer. À mesure que l'enjeu de l'inscription mémorielle devient idéologiquement plus suspect, le monument se métamorphose, et l'art anglais et américain vient interroger sans relâche, par-delà le rapport à l'Histoire, les enjeux sociaux et environnementaux de la commémoration. Le marbre grec est-il blanc, le toponyme indien laisse-t-il une trace ? Construire ou décrire un monument, est-ce conforter son identité ou subtiliser la mémoire de l'autre ? Peu à peu, l'art et la littérature revisitent, brisent et transfigurent le monumental. Comment définir le monument contemporain, autrement qu'à travers ses échelles variables, du jardin de Finley au labyrinthe d'acier de Richard Serra, installations éphémères et solides à la fois ? D'où cette force proprement poétique du monument, que cette « promenade » permet d'approcher et réévaluer. This book traces the evolution of the concept of monumentality, from straightforward historical inscription to periods when such manifestations become ideologically suspect. Were Greek statues really white? Why keep monuments or Indian toponyms in the United States? Nineteenth-century British and American artists explore the construction of identity, history and nation. Gradually, monuments became landmarks of mutability as much as stability. From books and poems to works of art, twentieth and twenty-first century aesthetics revisit the monumental, from Finley's garden to Richard Serra's labyrinthine iron structures. Shape-shifting, solid yet often ephemeral, installations explore spatial and social interactions, submitting monumentality and commemoration to a welcome and long-overdue reevaluation.

English literature --- American literature --- Monuments in literature. --- Monuments in art. --- Memorials in literature. --- Memorials in art. --- History and criticism. --- English literature - 19th century - History and criticism --- American literature - 19th century - History and criticism --- Monuments in literature --- Monuments in art --- Memorials in literature --- Memorials in art --- art --- modernité --- littérature --- Royaume-Uni --- États-Unis --- monument

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In spite of the ephemeral nature of performed drama, playwrights such as Marlowe, Jonson, Webster, Fletcher, and Shakespeare were deeply interested in the endurance of their theatrical work and in their own literary immortality. This book re-evaluates the relationship between these early modern dramatists and literary posterity by considering their work within the context of post-Reformation memorialization. Providing fresh analyses of plays by major dramatists, Brian Chalk considers how they depicted monuments and other funeral properties on stage in order to exploit and criticize the rich ambiguities of commemorative rituals. The book also discusses the print history of the plays featured. The subject will attract scholars and upper-level students of Renaissance drama, memory studies, early modern theatre, and print history.

English drama --- Monuments in literature. --- Memorials in literature. --- Drama --- Drama, Modern --- Dramas --- Dramatic works --- Plays --- Playscripts --- Stage --- Literature --- Dialogue --- History and criticism. --- Publishing --- History --- Philosophy --- English drama - Early modern and Elizabethan

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This study examines tales from The Metamorphoses by the Roman poet Ovid (43 BC-18 AD) and from The Lais by the French poet Marie de France (fl. mid-to late twelfth century) to explore a paradox: how can a vibrant, complex, and timeless vision be conveyed in convention-informed and time-bound language? Marie plays against Ovid's tales to probe the dilemma, thereby echoing Ovid who does the same to the canonical literary monuments of his day. Both poets suggest that poetry can avoid the flattening effect of monumental canonizing not only by the creative use of literary echoes, but also by shifting perspectives on the conventional, which in turn, can encourage readers to see reflections of many stories in any given tale. Ovid and Marie suggest and encourage in this manner by presenting literary love's topoi and traditional lovers from a variety of metaliterary perspectives, thereby eliciting active readerly memory as well as providing the opportunity to see the conventional afresh, activity that allows even canonical texts to become living memorials.

Memorials in literature --- Memory in literature --- Memory as a theme in literature --- Ovid, - 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D. - Criticism and interpretation --- Marie, - de France, - 12th cent. - Criticism and interpretation --- Ovid, - 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D. --- Marie, - de France, - 12th cent.