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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: ruins lesson
    sub title: meaning and material in western culture
  name:
    name part: Stewart, Susan
    name part: 1952-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ilu
    date issued: 2020
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiv, 378 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of color plates : illustrations ; 26 cm.
  abstract: In 'The Ruins Lesson,' the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning poet-critic Susan Stewart explores the West's fascination with ruins in literature, visual art and architecture, covering a vast chronological and geographical range from the ancient Egyptians to T. S. Eliot. In the multiplication of images of ruins, artists and writers, she surveys, Stewart shows how these thinkers struggled to recover lessons out of the fragility or our cultural remains. She tries to understand the appeal in the West of ruins and ruination, particularly Roman ruins, in the work and thought of Goethe, Piranesi, Blake and Wordsworth, whom she returns to throughout the book. Her sweeping, deeply felt study encompasses the founding legends of broken covenants and original sin, Christian transformations of the classical past, the myths and rituals of human fertility, images of ruins in Renaissance allegory, eighteenth-century melancholy and nineteenth-century cataloging and new gardens that eventually emerged from ancient sites of disaster.
  table of contents: Valuing ruin -- Matter : this ruined earth -- Marks : inscriptions and spolia -- Mater : nymphs, virgins, and whores-on the ruin of women -- Matrix : humanism and the rise of the ruins print -- Model : the architectural imaginary -- Mirrors : the voyages and fantasies of the ruins craze -- The unfinished : on the nonfinality of certain works of art -- Resisting ruin : the decay of monuments and the promises of language.
  note: Susan Stewart.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Ruins in literature
  subject:
    topic: Ruins in art
  subject:
    topic: Antiquities in literature
  subject:
    topic: Antiquities in art
  classification: PN56.R87 S74 2020
  classification: 809/.9335
  identifier: 9780226632612
  identifier: 022663261X
  identifier: 9780226632759
  identifier: 2019030168
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 190712
    record change date: 20201021155536.0
    record identifier: in00004266270