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This title establishes a two-way interpretive methodology between theory, history, and geography and the novel that serves as the groundwork for innovative interdisciplinary readings of monumental space. There has been a proliferation in recent scholarship of studies of monuments and their histories and of theoretical positions that shed light on aspects of their meanings. However, just as monuments mark their territory by attempting to ensure the existence of boundaries, so these discourses set a boundary between their authority as platforms on which the interpretation of monumental space occurs and, in this respect, the different authority of the novel. This study crosses this boundary by means of dynamic interdisciplinary movements between selected novels by James Joyce, Yukio Mishima, Rashid al-Daif, and Orhan Pamuk, on the one hand, and various theoretical perspectives, history, and cultural geography, on the other. Through the specific choice of literary texts that represent monumental space in atypical post-imperial geopolitical contexts, "Monumental Space and the Post-Imperial Novel" brings into question many postcolonial paradigms. Sakr establishes a two-way interpretive methodology between theory, history, and cultural geography and the novel that serves as the groundwork for innovative interdisciplinary readings of monumental space.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Monumental Space in the Post-Imperial Novel
• Author: Rita Sakr
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 256
• EAN: 9781441112699
• ISBN: 1441112693
• ID: 04429156
• Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
• Weight: 528 g
• Dimensions: 227 × 161 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. December 2011

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