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Architecture of oblivion [electronic resource] : ruins and historical consciousness in modern Russia / Andreas Schönle

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Schönle, Andreas
Published
DeKalb : Northern Illinois University Press, c2011.
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xii, 283 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Contents
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.
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ISBN
9780875806518 (clothbound : acid-free paper)
0875806511 (clothbound : acid-free paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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