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The Ruins Lesson: Meaning and Material in Western Culture

By Susan Stewart
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How have ruins become so valued in Western culture and so central to our art and literature? Covering a vast chronological and geographical range, from ancient Egyptian inscriptions to twentieth-century memorials, Susan Stewart seeks to answer this question as she traces the appeal of ruins and ruins images, and the lessons that writers and artists have drawn from their haunting forms.


Stewart takes us on a sweeping journey through founding legends of broken covenants and original sin, the...

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