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Language: en
Pages: 219
Authors: Andrew F. Wood
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-09-20 - Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

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A Rhetoric of Ruins contributes to an interdisciplinary conversation about the role of wrecked and abandoned places in modern life. Topics in this book stretch
Public Forgetting
Language: en
Pages: 224
Authors: Bradford Vivian
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-10-13 - Publisher: Penn State Press

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Forgetting is usually juxtaposed with memory as its opposite in a negative way: it is seen as the loss of the ability to remember, or, ironically, as the inevit
Ruined by Design
Language: en
Pages: 295
Authors: Inger Sigrun Brodey
Categories: Architecture
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008 - Publisher: Routledge

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By examining the motif of ruination in a variety of late-eighteenth-century domains, this book portrays the moral aesthetic of the culture of sensibility in Eur
The Aesthetics of Ruins
Language: en
Pages: 573
Authors: Robert Ginsberg
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-08-04 - Publisher: BRILL

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This book constructs a theory of ruins that celebrates their vitality and unity in aesthetic experience. Its argument draws upon over 100 illustrations prepared
Spiritual Modalities
Language: en
Pages: 170
Authors: William FitzGerald
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012 - Publisher: Penn State Press

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"Explores prayer as a rhetorical art, examining situations, strategies, and performative modes of discourse directed to the divine"--Provided by publisher.