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Narrating the Past: (Re)Constructing Memory, (Re)Negotiating
Editor: Vartan P. Messier and Nandita Batra Pages
Date Of Publication: Feb 2007
Isbn13: 9781847181145
Isbn: 1-84718-114-7
Narrative constitutes an integral part of human existence, being omnipresent in our ordering of the world and the ways in which we transmit both knowledge and experience. Narrative construction has challenged the supremacy of empirical fact and has questioned our ability to know the past Aas it really was. Examining a wide range of texts, from ancient Greece and medieval Britain to contemporary America, Asia, Australia, Britain and the Caribbean, the essays in this volume address the inconsistencies in master narratives to reveal that all representations of the past, like knowledge, are situated.
Nandita Batra was born in Bombay, obtaining a Bachelor's and a Master's from the University of Delhi, and a Ph.D. from the University of Rochester. She teaches English Literature and is Editor of Revista Atenea: A Bilingual Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez and now serves as Vice-President and Secretary of the College English Association's Caribbean Chapter.
Vartan P. Messier was born in Geneva, receiving a Bachelor's from the University of San Diego and a Master's from the University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez; he is now pursuing a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at the University of California-Riverside. He has taught French and English at Universities and institutions across Europe and the Americas and now serves as President of the College English Association's Caribbean Chapter.
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Sabina de Cavi’s Architecture and Royal Presence: Domenico and Giulio Cesare Fontana in Spanish Naples (1592-1627) is an exemplary interdisciplinary study of the relationship between politics and art history. No finer or more vivid investigation exists of the role of the Spanish viceroyalty in Neapolitan architecture during its formative years. It offers an unparalleled examination of the viceregal claims to legitimacy, casts brilliant light on the relationship between architecture, etiquette and ceremonial, and makes clear the critical role played in these developments by the remarkable architecture of Domenico and Giulio Cesare Fontana.
David Freedberg, Pierre Matisse Professor of the History of Art, Columbia University
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