On the Ruins of Babel: Architectural Metaphor in German Thought 0801476763, 9780801476761

On the Ruins of Babel: Architectural Metaphor in German Thought 9780801460050

The eighteenth century struggled to define architecture as either an art or a science—the image of the architect as a gr

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In What Style Should We Build?: German Debate on Architectural Styles (Texts & documents): The German Debate on Architectural Style (Getty Publications – (Yale)) 9780892361984, 0892361980

This series offers a range of heretofore unavailable writings in English translation on the subjects of art, architectur

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Metaphor and Musical Thought 9780226279435

"The scholarship of Michael Spitzer's new book is impressive and thorough. The writing is impeccable and the c

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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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Mythopoetic Cinema: On the Ruins of European Identity 9780231544108

Mythopoetic Cinema explores how contemporary European filmmakers question the constant need to provide new identities, a

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The Poetics of Ruins in Renaissance Literature

The book argues that the Renaissance was the Ruin-naissance, the birth of the ruin as category of discourse that inspire

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Babel of the Atlantic 9780271083230

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Mythopoetic Cinema: On the Ruins of European Identity 0231182198, 9780231182195

In Mythopoetic Cinema, Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli explores how contemporary European filmmakers treat mythopoetics as a crit

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Contagion and the National Body: The Organism Metaphor in American Thought 1138306223, 978-1138306226

Drawing on the work of George Lakoff, this book provides a detailed analysis of the organism metaphor, which draws an an

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Undoing Babel: The Tower of Babel in Anglo-Saxon Literature 9781487511265

Undoing Babel is the first extensive examination of the development of the Babel narrative amongst Anglo-Saxon authors f

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