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  title info:
    title: Ruins in the Literary and Cultural Imagination
  name:
    name part: Mitsi, Efterpi.
    role:
      role term: editor.
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  name:
    name part: Despotopoulou, Anna.
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      role term: editor.
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      role term: edt
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  name:
    name part: Dimakopoulou, Stamatina.
    role:
      role term: editor.
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      role term: edt
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      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt
  name:
    name part: Aretoulakis, Emmanouil.
    role:
      role term: editor.
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      role term: edt
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      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2019
    edition: 1st ed. 2019.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XVIII, 306 p. 19 illus., 8 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: 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, through discussions of Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht, as well as reflections on the refugee crisis that take the ruin beyond the text, offering new perspectives on its diverse legacies and conceptual resources. .
  table of contents: Chapter 1. Introduction, Efterpi Mitsi, Anna Despotopoulou, Stamatina Dimakopoulou, Emmanouil Aretoulakis -- Chapter 2. Amongst the Ruins of a European Gothic Phantasmagoria in Athens, Maria Vara -- Chapter 3. Dickens's Animate Ruins, Michael Hollington -- Chapter 4. The Indifference of Fragments: Untimely Ruin in Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Claire Potter -- Chapter 5. Rising from Ruins: Isabel Archer at the Roman Campagna, Chryssa Marinou -- Chapter 6. Untimely Returns: Shoring Fragments against Ruins in Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca, Sheila Teahan -- Chapter 7. "There must be no ruins": Ruinophobia and Urban Morphology in Turn-of-the-Century New York, Theodora Tsimpouki -- Chapter 8. "Ruins True Refuge": Beckett and Pinter, David Tucker -- Chapter 9. Out of the Ruins of Dresden: Destructive Plasticity in Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five, Giorgos Giannakopoulos -- Chapter 10. Melancholia and the Bomb: Robert Lowell, Anne Sexton and the Fragmented Atomic Psyche, Adam Beardsworth -- Chapter 11. The Fractured World of Leonard Cohen, Jeffrey L. Spear -- Chapter 12. Springtime for Defaults: The Producers as the Ruin of History and the Triumph of Hystery, Christina Dokou -- Chapter 13. In the Absence of Ruins: The "Non-Sites of Memory" in Claude Lanzmann's Shoah and Daniel Mendelsohn's Lost: The Search for Six of Six Million, Angeliki Tseti -- Chapter 14. Destruction Preservation, or the Edifying Ruin in Benjamin and Brecht, Vassiliki Kolocotroni -- Chapter 15. Thinking Like a Ruin, Carl Lavery and Simon Murray -- Chapter 16. Contemporary Ruins, Fragments of the Lives of Others, Critical Intimacies in and out of Comfort Zones, Apostolos Lampropoulos -- Chapter 17: Afterword: The Consolations of Ruins: From the Acropolis to Epidaurus, Jyotsna Singh.
  note: edited by Efterpi Mitsi, Anna Despotopoulou, Stamatina Dimakopoulou, Emmanouil Aretoulakis.
  subject:
    topic: British literature
  subject:
    topic: America-Literatures
  subject:
    topic: Literature, Modern-20th century
  subject:
    topic: Literature, Modern-19th century
  subject:
    topic: British and Irish Literature
  subject:
    topic: North American Literature
  subject:
    topic: Twentieth-Century Literature
  subject:
    topic: Nineteenth-Century Literature
  classification: PN849.G74
  classification: 809.41
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783030269050
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26905-0
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    record creation date: 191128
    record change date: 20191129021240.0
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