The Ruins Lesson
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-79220-0 (ISBN)
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.
Susan Stewart is the Avalon Foundation University Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University and a former MacArthur Fellow. Among her many books of prose are On Longing, The Open Studio, Poetry and the Fate of the Senses, and The Poet’s Freedom. Her books of poems include Columbarium, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Cinder.
List of Illustrations
Preface
Introduction: Valuing Ruin
I. Matter: This Ruined Earth
II. Marks: Inscriptions and Spolia
III. Mater: Nymphs, Virgins, and Whores—On the Ruin of Women
IV. Matrix: Humanism and the Rise of the Ruins Print
V. Model: The Architectural Imaginary
VI. Mirrors: The Voyages and Fantasies of the Ruins Craze
VII. The Unfinished: On the Nonfinality of Certain Works of Art
VIII. Resisting Ruin: The Decay of Monuments and the Promises of Language
Acknowledgments
Notes
Works Cited
Photography Credits
Name Index
Subject Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 03.06.2021 |
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Zusatzinfo | 11 color plates, 80 halftones |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 178 x 254 mm |
Gewicht | 567 g |
Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik |
ISBN-10 | 0-226-79220-X / 022679220X |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-226-79220-0 / 9780226792200 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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