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Female Ruins
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Author : Geoff Nicholson
language : en
Publisher: ABRAMS
Release Date : 2001-09-04
Female Ruins written by Geoff Nicholson and has been published by ABRAMS this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-09-04 with Fiction categories.
“An elegantly constructed and often funny story about a man, a woman and . . . ‘the greatest modern English architect never to have built a building’” (The New York Times Book Review). Geoff Nicholson’s novel tells the story of Christopher Howell, a cult architect who allegedly built just one building, and the search for that fabled building―reputedly a wild, willful amalgam of styles ranging from eleventh-century Norman to twentieth-century Neutra. Ingeniously built into the narrative are bits of Howell’s essays that celebrate the idea of the “Cardboard House” and the architecture of impermanence. When Howell’s daughter—and keeper of his flame—Kelly, and a Howell groupie named Jack Dexter hook up in a free-falling love affair, the search for this apocryphal building becomes a search for a lost past. Brilliantly funny and seriously obsessive, Female Ruins shows how the castles we build are often symbols of our own needs, follies, and magnificent obsessions. “A meditative tale of a physical and psychological homecoming that builds its quiet and riveting plot through the dreams, achievements and theories of a dead architect with a mysterious legacy. . . . Nicholson eschews the sarcastic bite of his earlier books (such as Whitbread-nominee Bleeding London), unraveling a complex, subtle story with equally intricate and modulated characters. This restraint, which artfully leads the reader to the poignant yet satisfying denouement, gives the novel special appeal.” —Publishers Weekly “With his two protagonists, Nicholson has created believably flawed human beings, and if they sometimes come off as mouthpieces for architectural theory, it is a forgivable sin in an otherwise enjoyable novel.” —Booklist
Female Ruins
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Author : Geoff Nicholson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000-01-01
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Female Ruins Indigo
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Author : Nicholson
language : en
Publisher: Indigo
Release Date : 1998-12
Female Ruins Indigo written by Nicholson and has been published by Indigo this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-12 with categories.
The Ruins Lesson
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Author : Susan Stewart
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2021-06-02
The Ruins Lesson written by Susan Stewart and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-02 with Architecture categories.
"In 'The Ruins Lesson,' the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning poet-critic Susan Stewart explores the West's fascination with ruins in literature, visual art, and architecture, covering a vast chronological and geographical range from the ancient Egyptians to T. S. Eliot. In the multiplication of images of ruins, artists, and writers she surveys, Stewart shows how these thinkers struggled to recover lessons out of the fragility or our cultural remains. She tries to understand the appeal in the West of ruins and ruination, particularly Roman ruins, in the work and thought of Goethe, Piranesi, Blake, and Wordsworth, whom she returns to throughout the book. Her sweeping, deeply felt study encompasses the founding legends of broken covenants and original sin; Christian transformations of the classical past; the myths and rituals of human fertility; images of ruins in Renaissance allegory, eighteenth-century melancholy, and nineteenth-century cataloguing; and new gardens that eventually emerged from ancient sites of disaster"--
Bodies And Ruins
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Author : David F. Crew
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2017-05-19
Bodies And Ruins written by David F. Crew and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-19 with History categories.
Explores visual representations of the Allied bombing war on Germany to reveal how Germans remembered and commemorated WWII
Ruins In The Literary And Cultural Imagination
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Author : Efterpi Mitsi
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2019-11-28
Ruins In The Literary And Cultural Imagination written by Efterpi Mitsi and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-28 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book focuses on literal and metaphorical ruins, as they are appropriated and imagined in different forms of writing. Examining British and American literature and culture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the book begins in the era of industrial modernity with studies of Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Henry James and Daphne Du Maurier. It then moves on to the significance of ruins in the twentieth century, against the backdrop of conflict, waste and destruction, analyzing authors such as Beckett and Pinter, Kurt Vonnegut, Robert Lowell, Anne Sexton and Leonard Cohen. The collection concludes with current debates on ruins, through discussions of Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht, as well as reflections on the refugee crisis that take the ruin beyond the text, offering new perspectives on its diverse legacies and conceptual resources.
Sonic Ruins Of Modernity
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Author : Edwin Seroussi
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2022-06-30
Sonic Ruins Of Modernity written by Edwin Seroussi and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-30 with Music categories.
Sonic Ruins of Modernity shows how social, cultural and cognitive phenomena interact in the making and distribution of folksongs beyond their time. Through Judeo-Spanish (or Ladino) folksongs, the author illustrates a methodology for the interplay of individual memories, artistic initiatives, political and media policies, which ultimately shape “tradition” for the past century. He fleshes out in a series of case studies how folksongs can be conceived, performed and circulated in the post-tradition era – constituting each song as a “sonic ruin,” as an imagined place. At the same time, the book overall provides a unique perspective on the history of the Judeo-Spanish folksong.
Ruins A Drama For Women
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Author : Doris Maria Day
language : en
Publisher: Macclesfield, Cheshire : New Playwrights' Network, [19--]
Release Date : 19??
Ruins A Drama For Women written by Doris Maria Day and has been published by Macclesfield, Cheshire : New Playwrights' Network, [19--] this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 19?? with categories.
Cities In Ruins
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Author : Cecilia Enjuto Rangel
language : en
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Release Date : 2010
Cities In Ruins written by Cecilia Enjuto Rangel and has been published by Purdue University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Literary Criticism categories.
Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures publishes studies on topics of literary, theoretical, or philological importance that make a significant contribution to scholarship in French. Italian. Luso Brazilian, Spanish, and Spanish American literatures. --Book Jacket.
Ruins Of Isis
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Author : Marion Zimmer Bradley
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2013-03-29
Ruins Of Isis written by Marion Zimmer Bradley and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-29 with Fiction categories.
Of all the worlds of the Galaxy, only the Matriarchy of Isis/Cinderella has returned to an ancient social order. It is on Isis that women rule, their control total and unbending. On Isis men are regarded as dangerous animals or, at best, as sexual playthings. And on Isis the great enigma of the known universe, the Builder Ruins - last remnant of an unknown, ancient culture. Within those strange Ruins, something survives - something which speaks to the women of Isis and to no one else.