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Author: Julia Hell ,
Andreas Schönle
Publisher: Duke University Press
Imprint: Duke University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 3.30cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.794kg
ISBN: 9780822344742
ISBN 10: 0822344742
Pages: 277
Publication Date: 19 March 2010
Audience:
College/higher education
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
"""The scope of this book is ambitious; the execution is masterful. It is a superb collection of reflections by major scholars on the pervasive presence of ruins in contemporary cultures. It is sure to find a wide readership among urban historians, scholars of modernity, scholars and students of German, European, and post-Soviet studies, film scholars, and art historians.""--Ulrich Baer, author of Spectral Evidence: The Photography of Trauma ""Ever since Shelley's traveler returned from an 'antique land' with news of the shattered statue of Ozymandias, king of kings, we have pondered the sober lessons of ruins and their mockery of human pretension. In this remarkable collection assembled by Julia Hell and Andreas Schonle, the ruinscape is that of the modern world and the gazes fall as much on our prior attempts to make sense of it as on the ruins themselves.""--Martin Jay, author of Songs of Experience: Modern American and European Variations on a Universal Theme"
The scope of this book is ambitious; the execution is masterful. It is a superb collection of reflections by major scholars on the pervasive presence of ruins in contemporary cultures. It is sure to find a wide readership among urban historians, scholars of modernity, scholars and students of German, European, and post-Soviet studies, film scholars, and art historians. --Ulrich Baer, author of Spectral Evidence: The Photography of Trauma Ever since Shelley's traveler returned from an 'antique land' with news of the shattered statue of Ozymandias, king of kings, we have pondered the sober lessons of ruins and their mockery of human pretension. In this remarkable collection assembled by Julia Hell and Andreas Schonle, the ruinscape is that of the modern world and the gazes fall as much on our prior attempts to make sense of it as on the ruins themselves. --Martin Jay, author of Songs of Experience: Modern American and European Variations on a Universal Theme
Author Information
Julia Hell is Associate Professor of German Studies at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Post-Fascist Fantasies: History, Psychoanalysis, and East German Literature, also published by Duke University Press. Andreas SchÖnle is Professor of Russian Studies at Queen Mary, University of London. He is the author of The Ruler in the Garden: Politics and Landscape Design in Imperial Russia and Authenticity and Fiction in the Russian Literary Journey, 1790–1840.
