This paper reviews Gaston Leroux’s <i>Phantom of the Opera</i> in the context of the social and cultural changes of the metropolis Paris at the end of the 19th century. <i>The</i> <i>Phantom of the Opera</i>, a success in the literary world and widely proliferated in its musical and film renditions afterward, is...

Under the influence of Freud’s dream analysis, Benjamin writes down a dream about Goethe’s house, which he has visited before and in whose visitor’s book he finds his name ‘already entered in big, unruly, childish scrawl’ and at whose dinner table he finds places set for his relatives,...

Chronicling the interiors and exteriors of selected abandoned buildings in Sydney, this article examines the problem of memory in spaces that are not only isolated and devalued, but often have played no role in the life of the casual visitor or observer. How can the ruins of someone else’s...