Title & Author:

The cultural reconstruction of places / ed. by Ástráður Eysteinsson.

Publication:

Reykjavík : Univ. of Iceland Press, 2006.

Description:

221 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Placing Culture / Ástrádur Eysteinsson -- Pilgrims and Heretics at the shrine: Reassessing the history od Shakespeare's birthplace / Maurizio Ascari -- On earthquakes, Henry Fieling, and the flow of memory / Susan Bassnett -- William Morris's Socialism and Utopia built upon old Icelandic models and rendered plausible and auspicious by Vico's Conception of History -- Cultural memory, Reconciliation, and the Reconstruction of the site of the "Poppy Day' bomb in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland / Graham Dawson -- Snæfellsjökull in the Distance: Glacial/Cultural Reflections / Ástrádur Eysyeinsson -- Barbarism and the "New Goths": The controversial Germanic origins of Morris's Utopian Socialism / Vita Fortunati -- Collective memory, history, and national identity / Guomundur Hálfdanarson -- Reading Saga landscapes: The case of Samuel E. Waller / Jón Karl Helgason -- Under the tourist gaze: Reykjavík as the city that never sleeps / Heida Jóhannsdóttir -- Home, Home in the Dales: The dialogism of Toponymy in Laxdæla saga / Pétur Knútsson -- Memory fiqures in Rushdie's Midnight's Children / Giuseppe Martella -- Paris: An international crossroads of western cultures in Mavis Gallant's Short Stories / Gabriella Morisco -- Graveyards of Memory at the north-eastern borders of Italy / Katia Pizzi -- Sites unseen: the visibility and invisibility of London monuments / David Skilton -- Vienna, Basel, Tuscany: Stories (and Echoes) of the Terrains of Reinterpreted Identities / Jola Skulj -- Icelandic Stoicism among the Victorians? The Legacy of Old Norse Sagas in William Morris's Utopian Views of Humanity / Paola Spinozzi -- Commissioning a "Golden Past": The Communist (Re)construction of "Thracia Felix" / Monica Spiridon -- Laxdale as William Morris's Interior Topography / Alessandra Zironi.

Summary:

"The eighteen articles in this book focus on and critically explore several manifestations of the ways in which places assume historical and cultural meaning. Many places we get to know come to us (and we to them) loaded with historical significance, but the ideological and aesthetic construction of the past in relation to the present also often involves concentration on certain places, be they local, native, or foreign. Such places and they can be anything from a city square to a piece of wilderness to a whole country are constantly reconstructed by cultural reiterations, renovations or contestations. Places are among the keys to our cultural identities, but this means they are also gateways of the imaginary. The authors scholars from Italy, Romania, Slovenia, Iceland, and Britain demonstrate and discuss how important ideas are grounded on physical sites, be they circumscribed by national interests, urban encounters, historical figures, traumatic events, or mythic notions of landscape. A number of articles dwell on Iceland as a place of the utopian imaginary, as fleshed out for instance by William Morris."--pub. desc.

ISBN:

9789979547396
9979547391

Subject:

Morris, William, 1834-1896.
Memory Social aspects.
Memory in literature.
Utopian socialism.
Historic sites Social aspects.
Historic preservation Social aspects.
Mémoire dans la littérature.
Socialisme utopique.
Lieux historiques Aspect social.
Préservation historique Aspect social.
Kultur
Historische Stätte

Added entries:

Ástráður Eysteinsson.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 264599
Call No.: BIB 196049
Status: Available