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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"--
The Ruins Lesson
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Author : Susan Stewart
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2020-01-07
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 2020-01-07 with Literary Criticism categories.
How have ruins become so valued in Western culture and so central to our art and literature? Covering a vast chronological and geographical range, from ancient Egyptian inscriptions to twentieth-century memorials, Susan Stewart seeks to answer this question as she traces the appeal of ruins and ruins images, and the lessons that writers and artists have drawn from their haunting forms. Stewart takes us on a sweeping journey through founding legends of broken covenants and original sin, the Christian appropriation of the classical past, myths and rituals of fertility, images of decay in early modern allegory and melancholy, the ruins craze of the eighteenth century, and the creation of “new ruins” for gardens and other structures. Stewart focuses particularly on Renaissance humanism and Romanticism, periods of intense interest in ruins that also offer new frames for their perception. The Ruins Lesson looks in depth at the works of Goethe, Piranesi, Blake, and Wordsworth, each of whom found in ruins a means of reinventing art. Ruins, Stewart concludes, arise at the boundaries of cultures and civilizations. Their very appearance depends upon an act of translation between the past and the present, between those who have vanished and those who emerge. Lively and engaging, The Ruins Lesson ultimately asks what can resist ruination—and finds in the self-transforming, ever-fleeting practices of language and thought a clue to what might truly endure.
The Poetics Of Ruins In Renaissance Literature
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Author : Andrew Hui
language : en
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Release Date : 2017-01-02
The Poetics Of Ruins In Renaissance Literature written by Andrew Hui and has been published by Fordham Univ Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-02 with Art categories.
The Renaissance was the Ruin-naissance, the birth of the ruin as a distinct category of cultural discourse, one that inspired voluminous poetic production. For humanists, the ruin became the material sign that marked the rupture between themselves and classical antiquity. In the first full-length book to document this cultural phenomenon, Andrew Hui explains how the invention of the ruin propelled poets into creating works that were self-aware of their absorption of the past as well as their own survival in the future.
Love In The Ruins
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Author : Walker Percy
language : en
Publisher: Open Road Media
Release Date : 2011-03-29
Love In The Ruins written by Walker Percy and has been published by Open Road Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-29 with Fiction categories.
DIVDIV“A great adventure . . . So outrageous and so real, one is left speechless.” —Chicago Sun Times/divDIV/divDIVIn Walker Percy’s future America, the country is on the brink of disaster. With citizens violently polarized along racial, political, and social lines, and a fifteen-year war still raging abroad, America is crumbling quickly into ruin. The country’s one remaining hope is Dr. Thomas More, whose “lapsometer” is capable of diagnosing the spiritual afflictions—anxiety, depression, alienation—driving everyone’s destructive and disastrous behavior./divDIV /divDIVBut such a potent machine has its pitfalls. As Dr. More soon learns, in the wrong hands, the powerful lapsometer could lead to open warfare, pushing America into anarchy at full-speed./div /div
On Longing
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Author : Susan Stewart
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 1993
On Longing written by Susan Stewart and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
An analysis of the ways in which everyday objects are narrated to animate or realize certain versions of the world.
The Ruins Of Us
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Author : Keija Parssinen
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2012-01-17
The Ruins Of Us written by Keija Parssinen and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-17 with Fiction categories.
More than two decades after moving to Saudi Arabia and marrying powerful Abdullah Baylani, American-born Rosalie learns that her husband has taken a second wife. That discovery plunges their family into chaos as Rosalie grapples with leaving Saudi Arabia, her life, and her family behind. Meanwhile, Abdullah and Rosalie’s consuming personal entanglements blind them to the crisis approaching their sixteen-year-old son, Faisal, whose deepening resentment toward their lifestyle has led to his involvement with a controversial sheikh. When Faisal makes a choice that could destroy everything his embattled family holds dear, all must confront difficult truths as they fight to preserve what remains of their world. The Ruins of Us is a timely story about intolerance, family, and the injustices we endure for love that heralds the arrival of an extraordinary new voice in contemporary fiction.
Four Lost Cities A Secret History Of The Urban Age
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Author : Annalee Newitz
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2021-02-02
Four Lost Cities A Secret History Of The Urban Age written by Annalee Newitz and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-02 with Science categories.
Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR and Science Friday A quest to explore some of the most spectacular ancient cities in human history—and figure out why people abandoned them. In Four Lost Cities, acclaimed science journalist Annalee Newitz takes readers on an entertaining and mind-bending adventure into the deep history of urban life. Investigating across the centuries and around the world, Newitz explores the rise and fall of four ancient cities, each the center of a sophisticated civilization: the Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük in Central Turkey, the Roman vacation town of Pompeii on Italy’s southern coast, the medieval megacity of Angkor in Cambodia, and the indigenous metropolis Cahokia, which stood beside the Mississippi River where East St. Louis is today. Newitz travels to all four sites and investigates the cutting-edge research in archaeology, revealing the mix of environmental changes and political turmoil that doomed these ancient settlements. Tracing the early development of urban planning, Newitz also introduces us to the often anonymous workers—slaves, women, immigrants, and manual laborers—who built these cities and created monuments that lasted millennia. Four Lost Cities is a journey into the forgotten past, but, foreseeing a future in which the majority of people on Earth will be living in cities, it may also reveal something of our own fate.
Broken Cities
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Author : Martin Devecka
language : en
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Release Date : 2020-09-01
Broken Cities written by Martin Devecka and has been published by Johns Hopkins University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-01 with History categories.
Drawing on literature, legal texts, epigraphic evidence, and the narratives embodied in monuments and painting, Broken Cities is an expansive and nuanced study that holds great significance for the field of historiography.
Enjoy Me Among My Ruins
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Author : Juniper Fitzgerald
language : en
Publisher: Feminist Press at CUNY
Release Date : 2022-08-30
Enjoy Me Among My Ruins written by Juniper Fitzgerald and has been published by Feminist Press at CUNY this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-30 with Social Science categories.
Combining feminist theories, X-Files fandom, and memoir, Enjoy Me among My Ruins draws together a kaleidoscopic archive of Juniper Fitzgerald’s experiences as a queer sex-working mother. Plumbing the major events that shaped her life, and interspersing her childhood letters written to cult icon Gillian Anderson, this experimental manifesto contends with dominant narratives placed upon marginalized people, ultimately rejecting a capitalist system that demands our purity and submission over our survival.
After The Ruins 1906 And 2006
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Author : Mark Klett
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2006
After The Ruins 1906 And 2006 written by Mark Klett and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Art categories.
A collection of essays accompany this collection of photos of San Francisco following the 1906 earthquake and fire, juxtaposed with photos of the city today.