Decay and Afterlife : Form, Time, and the Textuality of Ruins, 1100 to 1900 9780226811451, 9780226811598, 9780226811314, 2021019307

Decay and Afterlife: Form, Time, and the Textuality of Ruins, 1100 to 1900 9780226811451

Covering 800 years of intellectual and literary history, Prica considers the textual forms of ruins. Western ruins have

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The Dead City: Urban Ruins and the Spectacle of Decay 9781350988583, 9781786732408

The Dead City unearths meanings from such depictions of ruination and decay, looking at representations of both thriving

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The Peculiar Afterlife of Slavery: The Chinese Worker and the Minstrel Form 9781503612068

The Peculiar Afterlife of Slavery explores how antiblack racism lived on through the figure of the Chinese worker in US

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A New Science of the Afterlife: Space, Time, and the Consciousness Code 1644116812, 9781644116814

Reveals how the continuity of consciousness beyond the physical body can be objectively demonstrated • Explores 15 prom

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Meaning and Textuality 9781442664838

Rastier proposes a theoretical framework for the semantic description and typology of texts, establishing a critical deb

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Jinnealogy: Time, Islam, and Ecological Thought in the Medieval Ruins of Delhi 9781503603950

In the ruins of a medieval palace in Delhi, a unique phenomenon occurs: Indians of all castes and creeds meet to sociali

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Perennial Decay: On the Aesthetics and Politics of Decadance 9780812292480

The contributors to Perennial Decay approach the question of decadence afresh, reevaluating the continuing importance of

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The Horn of Africa: State Formation and Decay 0190680180, 9780190680183

Why is the Horn such a distinctive part of Africa? This book, by one of the foremost scholars of the region, traces this

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Political English: Language and the Decay of Politics 1350101389, 9781350101388

From post-truth politics to "no-platforming" on university campuses, the English language has been both a pote

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Space, Time, Form: The Biological Synthesis

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