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    Ruins in the Literary and Cultural Imagination

Ruins in the Literary and Cultural Imagination

Efterpi Mitsi
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      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.
      Format: Hardback CONTRIBUTORS: Efterpi Mitsi EAN: 9783030269043 COUNTRY: Switzerland PAGES: WEIGHT: 549 g HEIGHT: 210 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Springer Nature Switzerland AG DATE PUBLISHED: 2019-12-09 CITY: GENRE: LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century WIDTH: 148 cm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      Europe, North America (USA and Canada), Literature: history and criticism, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000

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      Efterpi Mitsi is Professor in English Literature and Culture at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.Anna Despotopoulou is Professor in English Literature and Culture at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.Stamatina Dimakopoulou is Assistant Professor in American Literature and Culture at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.Emmanouil Aretoulakis is tenured Associate Lecturer in English Literature and Culture at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.
      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.
      Format: Hardback CONTRIBUTORS: Efterpi Mitsi EAN: 9783030269043 COUNTRY: Switzerland PAGES: WEIGHT: 549 g HEIGHT: 210 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Springer Nature Switzerland AG DATE PUBLISHED: 2019-12-09 CITY: GENRE: LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century WIDTH: 148 cm SPINE:

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      Europe, North America (USA and Canada), Literature: history and criticism, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000

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      Efterpi Mitsi is Professor in English Literature and Culture at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.Anna Despotopoulou is Professor in English Literature and Culture at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.Stamatina Dimakopoulou is Assistant Professor in American Literature and Culture at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.Emmanouil Aretoulakis is tenured Associate Lecturer in English Literature and Culture at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.

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