Prica Professor Aleksandra
Prica Professor Aleksandra - Decay And Afterlife Form Time And The Textuality Of Ruins 1100 To 1900 - Paperback
Prica Professor Aleksandra - Decay And Afterlife Form Time And The Textuality Of Ruins 1100 To 1900 - Paperback
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Description: Covering 800 years of intellectual and literary history Prica considers the textual forms of ruins. Western ruins have long been understood as objects riddled with temporal contradictions whether they appear in baroque poetry and drama Romanticism's nostalgic view of history eighteenth - century paintings of classical subjects or even recent photographic histories of the ruins of postindustrial Detroit. Decay and Afterlife pivots away from our immediate visual fascination with ruins focusing instead on the textuality of ruins in works about disintegration and survival. Combining an impressive array of literary philosophical and historiographical works both canonical and neglected and encompassing Latin Italian French German and English sources Aleksandra Prica addresses ruins as textual forms examining them in their extraordinary geographical and temporal breadth highlighting their variability and reflexivity and uncovering new lines of aesthetic and intellectual affinity. Through close readings she traverses eight hundred years of intellectual and literary history from Seneca and Petrarch to Hegel Goethe and Georg Simmel. She tracks European discourses on ruins as they metamorphose over time identifying surprising resemblances and resonances ignored contrasts and tensions as well as the shared apprehensions and ideas that come to light in the excavation of these discourses.
Title: Decay And Afterlife Form Time And The Textuality Of Ruins 1100 To 1900
Author(s): Prica Professor Aleksandra
Publisher: The University Of Chicago Press
Barcode: 9780226811598
Pages: 304 Pages, 8 Halftones
Publication Date: 2/17/2022
Category: Literary Studies: General
Description: Covering 800 years of intellectual and literary history Prica considers the textual forms of ruins. Western ruins have long been understood as objects riddled with temporal contradictions whether they appear in baroque poetry and drama Romanticism's nostalgic view of history eighteenth - century paintings of classical subjects or even recent photographic histories of the ruins of postindustrial Detroit. Decay and Afterlife pivots away from our immediate visual fascination with ruins focusing instead on the textuality of ruins in works about disintegration and survival. Combining an impressive array of literary philosophical and historiographical works both canonical and neglected and encompassing Latin Italian French German and English sources Aleksandra Prica addresses ruins as textual forms examining them in their extraordinary geographical and temporal breadth highlighting their variability and reflexivity and uncovering new lines of aesthetic and intellectual affinity. Through close readings she traverses eight hundred years of intellectual and literary history from Seneca and Petrarch to Hegel Goethe and Georg Simmel. She tracks European discourses on ruins as they metamorphose over time identifying surprising resemblances and resonances ignored contrasts and tensions as well as the shared apprehensions and ideas that come to light in the excavation of these discourses.
Title: Decay And Afterlife Form Time And The Textuality Of Ruins 1100 To 1900
Author(s): Prica Professor Aleksandra
Publisher: The University Of Chicago Press
Barcode: 9780226811598
Pages: 304 Pages, 8 Halftones
Publication Date: 2/17/2022
Category: Literary Studies: General
