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Managing Historical Capital In Shandong: Museum, Monument And Memory In Provincial China, James Flath
Managing Historical Capital In Shandong: Museum, Monument And Memory In Provincial China, James Flath
History Publications
This paper traces the development and distribution of museums and public monuments in one province of China during the twentieth century, with special emphasis on the cultural policies of the post–Mao reform era. By considering the museum and monument (i.e., artifacts, historically significant geographic features, and the physical representation of historical experience) as among the most tangible aspects of historical capital, it is demonstrated how region, province, and nation are involved with public and private interests in an ongoing dialogue over what types of history are to be represented, and in what context. This evidence suggests that while the state …
The Syntactic Encoding Of Topic And Focus, Ileana Paul
The Syntactic Encoding Of Topic And Focus, Ileana Paul
French Studies Publications
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The Bog Body As Mnemotope: Nationalist Archaeologies In Heaney And Tournier, Anthony Purdy
The Bog Body As Mnemotope: Nationalist Archaeologies In Heaney And Tournier, Anthony Purdy
French Studies Publications
The sometimes beautifully preserved Iron Age bodies that used to turn up from time to time in the peat-bogs of Northwestern Europe have moved and intrigued writers since P.V. Glob published his classic archaeological account, The Bog People, in 1965. Locating the specificity of the literary bog body in its ability to compress time, to render the past visible in the present, the article seeks to read the figure as a mnemotope, defined provisionally as any chronotopic motif which manifests the presence of the past, the conscious or unconscious memory traces of a more or less distant period in the …
Unearthing The Past: The Archaeology Of Bog Bodies In Glob, Atwood, Hébert And Drabble, Anthony Purdy
Unearthing The Past: The Archaeology Of Bog Bodies In Glob, Atwood, Hébert And Drabble, Anthony Purdy
French Studies Publications
Within the narrative poetics of the archaeological find, accounts of the discovery of beautifully preserved Iron Age bodies in the peat-bogs of Northwestern Europe constitute a particularly complex, well-defined and resonant subgenre. A reading of the genre’s founding text, P.V. Glob’s The Bog People, reveals a repertoire of tropes and topoï that will inform subsequent fictional treatments of bog body finds. Arguing that the poetic specificity of the bog body lies in its extraordinary capacity to abolish temporal distance and mediate between past and present, this essay seeks to define the figure as a special kind of chronotopic motif, or …
The Science Behind Francesco Borromini's Divine Geometry, John G. Hatch
The Science Behind Francesco Borromini's Divine Geometry, John G. Hatch
Visual Arts Publications
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