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18 septembre 2018
- handle: 10670/1.sj81xk
- isbn: 9782878546262
- eisbn: 9782878548297
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art littérature modernité États-Unis Royaume-Uni monument Architecture Cultural studies ARC024010 AMGDSujets proches
Cultural studies Cultural studies Addresses Papers, Collected (Anthologies) Orations Collected papers (Anthologies) Discourses Papers Historical monuments World literature Western literature (Western countries) Belles-lettres Addresses Lecturing Speaking Discourses Equestrian sculpture Ethology Western art (Western countries) Fine arts Iconography Arts, Fine Art, Occidental Arts, Visual Visual arts Occidental art Art, Visual Art, Western (Western countries) Western architecture (Western countries) Building design Construction Buildings--Design and construction Architecture, Western (Western countries) Monuments, etc ArtsCiter ce document
Robert Hampson, « Chapitre IX. “Marvellous appearances”: Frank O’ Hara and the monuments of Hollywood », Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, ID : 10670/1.sj81xk
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“Long may you illumine space with your marvellous appearances” This chapter addresses different treatments of, and responses to, the monument in modernist literature, by comparing three equestrian statues in works by Joseph Conrad, Henry James and Frank O’ Hara. The equestrian statue in The Aspern Papers represents a masculine ideal against which James’s central character is judged; the equestrian statue in Nostromo commemorates an imperial power that has waned; the statue in O’ Hara’s poem i...