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Architecture of Oblivion : Ruins and Historical Consciousness in Modern Russia /

Despite attempts to promote the aesthetics of ruins in Russia--from Catherine the Great's construction of fake ruins in imperial parks to Josef Brodsky's elegiac meditations--ruins have never achieved the status they enjoy in Western Europe. While the Soviet Union was notorious for levelin...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Schönle, Andreas (Autor)
Otros Autores: Fauci, Julia (Diseñador)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: DeKalb, Illinois : Northern Illinois University Press, 2011.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Ruins and modernity in Russian pre-Romanticism
  • Lessons of the fire of Moscow in 1812
  • Aesthetics and politics in the Romantic fashion for ruins
  • Between erasure and nurture : ruins and the modern city in the depth of times
  • Post-revolutionary urban decay : from the return of random beauty to the dystopian loss of self
  • The ruins of the blockade of Leningrad and the aesthetic struggle for survival
  • Ruin as transition to timelessness in Joseph Brodsky's poetry
  • The ruin as alternative reality : paper architects and the vitality of decay.