Theatres of Memory, Volume 1The idea that the past is a plaything of the present, or a metafiction, is only now beginning to disturb the tranquility of professional historians, but for some 20 years it has been a commonplace of epistemological criticism, and a mainspring of experimental work in literature and the arts. Thus, in magical realism or modern Gothic the fairy tale can appear as the latest thing; while in the visual arts, futurist installations offer themselves as parodies of Old Masters. |
Contents
Retrofitting | 51 |
Retrochic | 83 |
The Return to Brick | 119 |
Resurrectionism | 139 |
Living History | 169 |
Semantics | 205 |
Genealogies | 227 |
Sociology | 242 |
Politics | 288 |
The Eye of History | 315 |
The Discovery of Old Photographs | 337 |
Dreamscapes | 350 |
Scopophilia | 364 |
The Elephant Man | 381 |
Docklands Dickens | 401 |
Hybrids | 429 |
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