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Auteur(s) : Prica, Aleksandra
Titre(s) : Decay and afterlife [Texte imprimé] : form, time, and the textuality of ruins, 1100 to 1900 / Aleksandra Prica
Publication : Chicago : the University of Chicago press, copyright 2022
Description matérielle : xii, 298 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-292) and index
"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-industrial Detroit. Decay and Afterlife pivots away from our
immediate, visual fascination with ruins, and instead focuses on the textuality of
ruins in works about disintegration and survival. Combining an array of literary,
philosophical, and historiographical works both canonical and neglected, and encompassing
Latin, Italian, French, German, and English sources, Aleksandra Prica addresses ruins
as textual forms, examining them in their extraordinary geographical and temporal
breadth, highlighting their variability and reflexivity, and uncovering new lines
of aesthetic and intellectual affinity. Through theoretically rich close readings,
she traverses the longue durée of 800 years of intellectual and literary history,
from Seneca and Petrarch to Hegel, Goethe, and Georg Simmel. She tracks Europe's ruins
discourses as they metamorphose over time, identifying unremarked resemblances and
resonances, ignored contrasts and tensions, as well as the shared apprehensions and
ideas these thinkers bring to light. Throughout, she asks, "What persists in keeping
the ruins of a once grand past alive?""
Sujet(s) : Ruines (esthétique)
Littérature européenne -- Thèmes, motifs
Indice(s) Dewey :
809.933 58 (23e éd.) = Littérature - Histoire et critique - Thèmes historiques, politiques et militaires
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780226811314. - ISBN 022681131X. - ISBN 9780226811598. - ISBN 022681159X. -
ISBN 9780226811451 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb46922165m
Notice n° :
FRBNF46922165
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Among ruins: Martin Heidegger and Sigmund Freud ; After life: Hans Blumenberg and
Walter Benjamin ; Petrarch and the view of Rome ; Poliphilo and the dream of ruins
; Ferdinand Gregorovius, Hildebert of Lavardin, and the rupture of continuity ; Lucius
Annaeus Seneca, Martin Opitz, and the overcoming of vanity ; Johann Jacob Breitinger,
Andreas Gryphius, and the reconsideration of allegory ; Thomas Burnet, Georg Wilhelm
Friedrich Hegel, and the realignment of discourses ; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,
Georg Simmel, and the provisionality of forms ; Epilogue.
