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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Prica, Aleksandra, author.

Series:

Chicago scholarship online.

Chicago scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Antiquities in literature.

Ruins in literature.

European literature--History and criticism.

European literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (311 pages)

Place of Publication:

Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2022.

Summary:

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 postindustrial Detroit. Combining an impressive array of literary, philosophical and historiographical works both canonical and neglected, 'Decay and Afterlife' addresses ruins as textual forms, examining them in their extraordinary geographical and temporal breadth.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Figures

Abbreviations

Introduction

I Foundations

1 Among Ruins: Martin Heidegger and Sigmund Freud

2 Afterlife: Hans Blumenberg and Walter Benjamin

II The Propitious Moment

3 Petrarch and the View of Rome

4 Poliphilo and the Dream of Ruins

III Living On

5 Ferdinand Gregorovius, Hildebert of Lavardin, and the Rupture of Continuity

6 Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Martin Opitz, and the Overcoming of Vanity

IV The Battleground of Time

7 Johann Jacob Breitinger, Andreas Gryphius, and the Reconsideration of Allegory

8 Thomas Burnet, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, and the Realignment of Discourses

V Futures and Ruins

9 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Georg Simmel, and the Provisionality of Forms

Epilogue

Acknowledgments

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2022.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on October 24, 2022).

ISBN:

9780226811451

022681145X

OCLC:

1292352375