Ruins in the Literary and Cultural Imagination

Book Overview

Chapter 1 Introduction The editors
PART I Allegory - Animation - AppropriationChapter 2. Amongst the Ruins of a European Gothic Phantasmagoria in Athens Maria VaraChapter 3. Dickens's Animate Ruins Michael HollingtonChapter 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 CampagnaChryssa 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
PART II Re-collection - Trauma - AftermathChapter 8. "Ruins True Refuge" Beckett and PinterDavid 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
PART III Contemplation - Preservation - ResistanceChapter 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

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030269078
• ISBN13: 9783030269074
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.3"