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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Liliane Louvel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée 2012-12-01
Series:Études Britanniques Contemporaines
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/ebc/1334