monumentalization

Aesthetic monumentalization is at once loss and the refusal of loss; mourning and a failure to mourn; Mary Shelley's grieving heart and Edward

Response: Reading the Aesthetic, Reading Romanticism 2005

Seeking prestige and legitimacy through venerable predecessors, revered all the more emphatically through public "statufication," the print indulges in a combination of self-serving strategies — genealogy and monumentalization — not limited to, but particularly characteristic of nineteenth-century

Alexis Soyer and the Rise of the Celebrity Chef 2007

Noting that "it is not easy to disentangle the valuative work of commemoration from the rigor of a reading," she elaborates Paul de Man's severe emphasis on aesthetic monumentalization into a rich reading of the kind of biographical material — memoirs, anecdotes, letters — that is so often marshalled as an antidote to textual complexity.

Response: Reading the Aesthetic, Reading Romanticism 2005

If it is true and unavoidable that any reading is a monumentalization of sorts, the way in which Rousseau is read and disfigured in The

Thinking Singularity with Immanuel Kant and Paul de Man: Aesthetics, Epistemology, History and Politics 2005

Although some believe that success has eroded his idealism, he seems quite comfortable with the monumentalization that a midcareer retrospective at MoMA implies.

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Although some believe that success has eroded his idealism, he seems quite comfortable with the monumentalization that a midcareer retrospective at MoMA implies.

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Disfigured” (1984), argues that we must resist the urge to seek semantic closure for the fragment poem through its “monumentalization” as historical or aesthetic object, a process that he claims arbitrarily settles meaning within a pre-determined historical or semantic order (121).

Notes on 'The Ruins of Empire: Nationalism, Art, and Empire in Hemans's Modern Greece' 2006

Karen Swann draws attention to those strange, beautiful human forms one encounters now and then in Shelley’s poetry — figures suspended between life and death, within landscapes of wreckage and loss — and she elaborates de Man’s severe emphasis on aesthetic monumentalization into a rich reading of the kind of biographical material — memoirs, anecdotes, letters — that is so often marshalled as an antidote to textual complexity.

Article Abstracts 2005