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29%OFFRobert Harbison - Ruins and Fragments: Tales of Loss and Rediscovery - 9781780234472 - V9781780234472
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Ruins and Fragments: Tales of Loss and Rediscovery

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Description for Ruins and Fragments: Tales of Loss and Rediscovery Hardback. Ruins and Fragments is a wide-ranging, elliptical, engaging view of the history of modernity through the lens of the ruined and fragmentary. It explores literary fragments such as the plays of Aeschylus, as well as how writers - Joyce, Coleridge, Pound, T. S. Elliot - exploit fragmentary techniques and forms. Num Pages: 208 pages, 60. BIC Classification: AMX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 147 x 251 x 29. Weight in Grams: 478.
For many of us, ruins are alluring, puzzling and endlessly fascinating: this elegant book seeks to explore why. What is it that makes us suspicious of works or histories that are too smooth, too continuous? Is it that urban experience is inherently discontinuous and fragmented, or that the only truths we can believe are partial ones? Ruins and Fragments guides us through ancient and modern worlds, sharing tales of loss, recovery and rediscovery. Beginning with ancient fragments, this book recounts how later history has recuperated, restored and exhibited them, and even how ruins have been found in unlikely places - ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Reaktion Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780234472
SKU
V9781780234472
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About Robert Harbison
Robert Harbison is former Professor of Architecture at London Metropolitan University. He is the author of many books including Reflections on Baroque (Reaktion, 2000) and Travels in the History of Architecture (Reaktion, 2010).

Reviews for Ruins and Fragments: Tales of Loss and Rediscovery
An extended meditation on disruption and discontinuity in (largely) Western culture, on fractures, on remembering and forgetting what we have lost, and on the rough edges of our cultural world, from architecture to literature. Harbison proves a keen observer of the paradoxes of reconstruction.
Mary Beard Times Literary Supplement A marvelous story-teller and ... Read more

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