The Ruins Lesson - Meaning and Material in...

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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, and images of decay in early modern allegory. Stewart looks in depth at the works of Goethe, Piranesi, Blake, and Wordsworth, each of whom found in ruins a means of reinventing his art. 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.

Über den Autor

Susan Stewart is a poet, critic, and translator. Her previous books of poetry include Columbarium, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Cinder: New and Selected Poems. A MacArthur Fellow and a former Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, she is also a member of the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her most recent prose books are Poetry's Nature and The Ruins Lesson. She lives in Philadelphia.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2021
Fachbereich:	Unterricht
Genre:	Erziehung & Bildung , Importe
Rubrik:	Sozialwissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9780226792200
ISBN-10:	022679220X
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Stewart, Susan
Hersteller:	The University of Chicago Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	251 x 177 x 20 mm
Von/Mit:	Susan Stewart
Erscheinungsdatum:	02.06.2021
Gewicht:	0,87 kg