Professor Aleksandra Prica
Decay and Afterlife: Form, Time, and the Textuality of Ruins, 1100 to 1900
Decay and Afterlife: Form, Time, and the Textuality of Ruins, 1100 to 1900
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Prica explores the textual forms of ruins, focusing on their variability and reflexivity, and uncovering new lines of aesthetic and intellectual affinity through close readings of literary, philosophical, and historiographical works. She traces European discourses on ruins as they metamorphose over time, identifying surprising resemblances and resonances, ignored contrasts and tensions, and shared apprehensions and ideas.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 304 pages
Publication date: 17 February 2022
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Western ruins have long been perceived as enigmatic entities, teeming with temporal paradoxes, whether they manifest in baroque poetry and drama, Romanticism's nostalgic portrayal of history, eighteenth-century paintings of classical subjects, or even recent photographic accounts of the ruins of postindustrial Detroit. Decay and Afterlife shifts our attention away from our immediate visual captivation with ruins, instead delving into the textual intricacies of ruins in works that explore disintegration and survival. Drawing upon an impressive array of literary, philosophical, and historiographical works, both canonical and neglected, and encompassing Latin, Italian, French, German, and English sources, Aleksandra Prica examines ruins as textual forms, scrutinizing them in their remarkable geographical and temporal expanse, highlighting their diversity and reflexivity, and unearthing fresh lines of aesthetic and intellectual affinity. Through meticulous close readings, she traverses eight hundred years of intellectual and literary history, from the Stoics and Petrarch to Hegel, Goethe, and Georg Simmel. She traces the evolution of European discourses on ruins as they metamorphose over time, identifying surprising similarities and resonances, overlooked contrasts and tensions, as well as the shared fears and ideas that emerge during the excavation of these discourses.
Weight: 458g
Dimension: 152 x 228 x 19 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780226811598
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