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Besieged Leningrad : Aesthetic Responses to Urban Disaster /

During the 872 days of the Siege of Leningrad (September 1941 to January 1944), the city's inhabitants were surrounded by the military forces of Nazi Germany. They suffered famine, cold, and darkness, and a million people lost their lives, making the siege one of the most destructive in history...

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Autor principal: Barskova, Polina (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: DeKalb, IL : Northern Illinois University Press, [2017]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Walking through the siege: routes, routines, and the paths of the imagination
  • Spatialized allegory: speaking dystrophy otherwise
  • Paradoxes of siege vision: darkness, blindness, and knowledge
  • Framing the siege sublime: urban spectacle and cultural memory
  • The spatial practice of siege reading
  • Reading into the siege: heterochronic directions of escapist reading.