Ruins of the Mind 9781643970172

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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The Ruins 9780814728833

Set among the spinning cogs and wheels of a lavish dinner club for the "gastronomical Elect," The Ruins is a b

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Out of the Ruins 9781629632391, 2016948145

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Holocaust Testimonies: The Ruins of Memory 9780300173710

This important an original book is the first sustained analysis of the unique ways in which oral testimony of survivors

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Arthur Posnansky - The ruins of the first period of Tihuanacu

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Ruins of Modernity 9780822344568, 9780822344742

Images of ruins may represent the raw realities created by bombs, natural disasters, or factory closings, but the way we

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Brazilian Cinema and the Aesthetics of Ruins 9781350203020, 9781350203051, 9781350203044

Guilherme Carrera’s compelling book examines imagery of ruins in contemporary Brazilian documentary film-making and cons

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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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Roads and Ruins: The Symbolic Landscape of Fascist Rome 9781442697379

Drawing on a wide variety of sources, including war diaries, memoirs, paintings, films, and government archives, Roads a

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Utopian Ruins: A Memorial Museum of the Mao Era 9781478012764

Jie Li traces the creation, preservation, and elision of memories about China's Mao era by envisioning a virtual mu

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