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Place-Text-Trace: The Fragility of the Spatial Image
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Series: Studies in Iconology, Book 12
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ISBN10: 9042936258
ISBN13: 9789042936256
Publisher: Peeters
Published: May 2 2018
Pages: 117
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.40 Width: 6.70 Depth: 9.40
Language: English
ISBN13: 9789042936256
Publisher: Peeters
Published: May 2 2018
Pages: 117
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.40 Width: 6.70 Depth: 9.40
Language: English
The past was over, the future was not there yet and the present was afuture past. Throughout the long nineteenth century, past and presenthad become traces and layers, burdened with an inescapable dimension ofabsence. Writers, scholars and architects, political theorists, artists, visitors of museums and exhibitions, the miller in Provence and theshepherd in the Landes, were facing a rapidly changing world. Thepresent had become elusive and fragile. The past was irrevocably goneand other. In an initial context of loss, of dispersion anddisconnection of lands, people, professions and things, new frameworksof meaning and imagination, of 'presentification', had to be found, tools of preservation, of restoration, of (re)establishment andvivification.
Place and text become such tools.
Against a concise background of comparative literature and contemporaryphilosophy on absence and presentification, this essay explores spatialimages in French and Belgian nineteenth-century literature, especiallyin the work of Chateaubriand, Balzac, Rodenbach and Mistral. It isargued that the spatial image, as textual space and spatial text, and inthe built environment, operates as a cultural subtext ofpresentification. Its disruptive nature, its own fragility and eventualself-fragmentation reveal the cultural ambiguities of the century'stragic and grand strife to make the elusive present eternal, timeless, fixed, absenceless and complete in the age of traces.
Against a concise background of comparative literature and contemporaryphilosophy on absence and presentification, this essay explores spatialimages in French and Belgian nineteenth-century literature, especiallyin the work of Chateaubriand, Balzac, Rodenbach and Mistral. It isargued that the spatial image, as textual space and spatial text, and inthe built environment, operates as a cultural subtext ofpresentification. Its disruptive nature, its own fragility and eventualself-fragmentation reveal the cultural ambiguities of the century'stragic and grand strife to make the elusive present eternal, timeless, fixed, absenceless and complete in the age of traces.
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