| 书目名称 | Ruins in the Literary and Cultural Imagination | | 编辑 | Efterpi Mitsi,Anna Despotopoulou,Emmanouil Aretoul | | 视频video | | | 概述 | Extends understanding of ruins to include current debates on natural and human ruination.Maps ruin in literature from the Victorian period to the twentieth century.Focuses on the dialectics of destruc | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | .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. . | | 出版日期 | Book 2019 | | 关键词 | Victorian literature; twentieth-century literature; post-war literature; memory studies; culture of ruin | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26905-0 | | isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-26907-4 | | isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-26905-0 | | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |
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