Reading with Images: Anita Brookner’s The Next Big Thing as Memento Mori
The intermedial reading of Anita Brookner’s The Next Big Thing thanks to the aesthetic category of the memento mori is particularly fruitful as far as ruins are concerned. Memento mori si a very ‘particular’ kind of still life, it is also the enunciation/ annunciation of impending ruin. Herz’s heart...
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Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée
2012-12-01
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| Series: | Études Britanniques Contemporaines |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/ebc/1334 |