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Language: en
Pages: 404
Authors: Catherine Gimelli Martin
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998 - Publisher: Duke University Press

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In a reexamination of the allegorical dimensions of PARADISE LOST, Catherine Martin presents Milton's poem as a prophecy foretelling the end of one culture and
Allegories of the Anthropocene
Language: en
Pages: 188
Authors: Elizabeth M. DeLoughrey
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-06-28 - Publisher: Duke University Press

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In Allegories of the Anthropocene Elizabeth M. DeLoughrey traces how indigenous and postcolonial peoples in the Caribbean and Pacific Islands grapple with the e
The Ruins Lesson
Language: en
Pages: 401
Authors: Susan Stewart
Categories: Architecture
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-06-02 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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"In 'The Ruins Lesson,' the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning poet-critic Susan Stewart explores the West's fascination with ruins in literature, visua
Afterlives: Allegories of Film and Mortality in Early Weimar Germany
Language: en
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Authors: Steve Choe
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-07-31 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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Weimar cultural critics and intellectuals have repeatedly linked the dynamic movement of the cinema to discourses of life and animation. Correspondingly, recent
The Poetics of Ruins in Renaissance Literature
Language: en
Pages: 360
Authors: Andrew Hui
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-01-02 - Publisher: Fordham Univ Press

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The Renaissance was the Ruin-naissance, the birth of the ruin as a distinct category of cultural discourse, one that inspired voluminous poetic production. For