The Ruins Lesson: Meaning and Material in Western Culture by Stewart, Susan

Description: How have ruins become so valued in Western culture and so central to our art and literature? Covering a vast chronological and geographical range, from ancient Egyptian inscriptions to twentieth-century memorials, Susan Stewart seeks to answer this question as she traces the appeal of ruins and ruins images, and the lessons that writers and artists have drawn from their haunting forms. 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.

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EAN: 9780226792200

UPC: 9780226792200

ISBN: 9780226792200

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Book Title: The Ruins Lesson: Meaning and Material in Western

Item Length: 24.9 cm

Item Weight: 0.42 kg

Item Height: 254 mm

Item Width: 178 mm

Author: Susan Stewart

Publication Name: The Ruins Lesson: Meaning and Material in Western Culture

Format: Paperback

Language: English

Publisher: T.H.E. University of Chicago Press

Subject: Education

Publication Year: 2021

Type: Textbook

Number of Pages: 400 Pages