The Ruins Lesson

Meaning and Material in Western Culture

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Susan Stewart

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How have ruins become so valued in Western culture and so central to our art and literature? Covering a vast chronological and geographical range, from ancient Egyptian inscriptions to twentieth-century memorials, Susan Stewart seeks to answer this question as she traces the appeal of ruins and ruins images, and the lessons that writers and artists have drawn from their haunting forms. Stewart takes us on a sweeping journey through founding legends of broken covenants and original sin, the Christian appropriation of the classical past, and images of decay in early modern allegory. Stewart looks in depth at the works of Goethe, Piranesi, Blake, and Wordsworth, each of whom found in ruins a means of reinventing his art. Lively and engaging, The Ruins Lesson ultimately asks what can resist ruination—and finds in the self-transforming, ever-fleeting practices of language and thought a clue to what might truly endure.

Author Biography:

Susan Stewart is the Avalon Foundation University Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University and a former MacArthur Fellow. Among her many books of prose are On Longing, The Open Studio, Poetry and the Fate of the Senses, and The Poet’s Freedom. Her books of poems include Columbarium, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Cinder.

Release date Australia

June 2nd, 2021

Author

Susan Stewart

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

11 color plates, 80 halftones

Pages

400

Dimensions

178x254x28

ISBN-13

9780226792200

Product ID

34796478

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