Decay and Afterlife: Form, Time, and the Textuality of Ruins, 1100 to 1900 Prica Aleksandra
Covering 800 years of intellectual and literary history, Prica considers the textual forms of ruins.Western ruins have long been understood as objects riddled with temporal contradictions, whether…
Specifikacia Decay and Afterlife: Form, Time, and the Textuality of Ruins, 1100 to 1900 Prica Aleksandra
Covering 800 years of intellectual and literary history, Prica considers the textual forms of ruins.Western ruins have long been understood as objects riddled with temporal contradictions, whether they appear in Baroque poetry and drama, Romanticism's nostalgic view of history, eighteenth-century paintings of classical subjects, or even recent photographic histories of the ruins of post-industrial Detroit. Decay and Afterlife pivots away from our immediate, visual fascination with ruins, focusing instead on the textuality of ruins in works about disintegration and survival. Combining an impressive array of literary, philosophical, and historiographical works both canonical and neglected, and encompassing Latin, Italian, French, German, and English sources, Aleksandra Prica addresses ruins as textual forms, examining them in their extraordinary geographical and
The Book of Form and Emptiness
The Book of Form and Emptiness