Cities in Ruins
by Cecilia Enjuto Rangel
Title:
Cities in Ruins
Author:
Cecilia Enjuto Rangel
Series (if any):
Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
376 pages
Publisher:
Purdue University Press
ISBN-13:
9781557535719
EAN:
9781557535719
Publication Date:
15/11/2010
Classifications:
Literature: history and criticism
Weight (g):
722
Dimensions (mm):
226 x 152 x 25
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
Price:£54.56
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Description
Argues that the portrayal in poetry of the modern city as a disintegrated, ruined space is part of a critique of the visions of progress and the historical process of modernization that developed during the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century.
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