Decay and afterlife : form, time, and the textuality of ruins, 1100 to 1900 /

Western ruins have long been understood as objects riddled with temporal contradictions, whether they appear in Baroque poetry and drama, Romanticism's nostalgic view of history, eighteenth-century paintings of classical subjects, or even recent photographic histories of the ruins of post-indus...

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Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Prica, Aleksandra (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2022].
Subjects:	Antiquities in literature. Ruins in literature. European literature > History and criticism.