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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian StudiesPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (297 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781609090203
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Architecture of OblivionDDC classification:
  • 720.947
LOC classification:
  • NA2543.S6 -- .S36 2011eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- ARCHITECTURE OF OBLIVION -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- Illustration List -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION -- 1-Ruins and Modernity in Russian Pre- Romanticism -- 2-Lessons of the Fire of Moscow in 1812 -- 3-Aesthetics and Politics in the Romantic Fashion for Ruins -- 4-Between Erasure and Nurture-Ruins and the Modern City in the Depth of Times -- 5-Post-Revolutionary Urban Decay-From the Return of Random Beauty to the Dystopian Loss of Self -- 6-The Ruins of the Blockade of Leningrad and the Aesthetic Struggle for Survival -- 7-Ruin as Transition to Timelessness in Joseph Brodsky's Poetry -- 8-The Ruin as Alternative Reality-Paper Architects and the Vitality of Decay 194 -- CONCLUSION -- Notes -- Index.
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Cover -- ARCHITECTURE OF OBLIVION -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- Illustration List -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION -- 1-Ruins and Modernity in Russian Pre- Romanticism -- 2-Lessons of the Fire of Moscow in 1812 -- 3-Aesthetics and Politics in the Romantic Fashion for Ruins -- 4-Between Erasure and Nurture-Ruins and the Modern City in the Depth of Times -- 5-Post-Revolutionary Urban Decay-From the Return of Random Beauty to the Dystopian Loss of Self -- 6-The Ruins of the Blockade of Leningrad and the Aesthetic Struggle for Survival -- 7-Ruin as Transition to Timelessness in Joseph Brodsky's Poetry -- 8-The Ruin as Alternative Reality-Paper Architects and the Vitality of Decay 194 -- CONCLUSION -- Notes -- Index.

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