Ruins in the Literary and Cultural Imagination
This book focuses on literal and metaphorical ruins, as they are appropriated and imagined in different forms of writing. Examining British and American literature and culture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the book begins in the era of industrial modernity with studies of Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Henry James and Daphne Du Maurier. It then moves on to the significance of ruins in the twentieth century, against the backdrop of conflict, waste and destruction, analyzing authors such as Beckett and Pinter, Kurt Vonnegut, Robert Lowell, Anne Sexton and Leonard Cohen. The collection concludes with current debates on ruins, throug…
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Weitere Autoren: Aretoulakis, Emmanouil (Hrsg.) / Dimakopoulou, Stamatina (Hrsg.) / Despotopoulou, Anna (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-3-030-26907-4
- EAN: 9783030269074
- Produktnummer: 35641165
- Verlag: Springer International Publishing
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 324 S.
- Masse: H21.0 cm x B14.8 cm x D1.7 cm 421 g
- Auflage: 1st ed. 2019
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 421
Über den Autor
Efterpi Mitsi is Professor in English Literature and Culture at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.Anna Despotopoulou is Professor in English Literature and Culture at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.Stamatina Dimakopoulou is Assistant Professor in American Literature and Culture at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.Emmanouil Aretoulakis is tenured Associate Lecturer in English Literature and Culture at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.
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