Titlebook: Ruins in the Literary and Cultural Imagination; Efterpi Mitsi,Anna Despotopoulou,Emmanouil Aretoul Book 2019 The Editor(s) (if applicable)

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Book 2019ion 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. .

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Dickens’s Animate Ruinsbetween inanimate ruins and ruined human beings, following in the footsteps of Romantic writers like Byron and Heine before him. This essay examines the thematic implications of this complex of associations and looks at Dickens’s experience of the classical ruins at Rome and elsewhere in relation to his view of their modern counterparts.

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“There Must Be No Ruins”: Ruinophobia and Urban Morphology in Turn-of-the-Century New Yorkioning as a young nation oriented towards social progress and unfettered material pursuit. The belief in an uninterrupted linear narrative of progress made New York the place where newness and reconstruction were physically demonstrated in the city’s built environment and would not let be undermined by urban ruination.

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In the Absence of Ruins: The “Non-sites of Memory” in Claude Lanzmann’s , and Daniel Mendelsohn’s o narrate the catastrophe and destruction of European Jews during World War II. Both . (re)turn to the sites of torture and seek to reconstruct the past in and through the present, by highlighting, precisely, the erasure of traces.

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Destruction Preservation, or the Edifying Ruin in Benjamin and Brechtalso be seen as staging dialectical negotiations of preservation and destruction, set in aftermath sites where ruin and critical recollection hold the line of defence against “dark times” and prepare the ground for radical edification in the future.

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Contemporary Ruins, Fragments of the Lives of Others, Critical Intimacies In and Out of Comfort Zone Nancy’s understanding of being-with, in order to probe when and how a critical intimacy (namely a close encounter without fusion, and the opening of an in-between space) with the foreigner can take place.