European University Institute Library

Architecture of oblivion, ruins and historical consciousness in modern Russia, Andreas Schönle

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

Architecture of oblivion

bibliography

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Andreas Schönle

ruins and historical consciousness in modern Russia

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