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Author: Susan Stewart Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 022679220X Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 401
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"In 'The Ruins Lesson,' the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning poet-critic Susan Stewart explores the West's fascination with ruins in literature, visual art, and architecture, covering a vast chronological and geographical range from the ancient Egyptians to T. S. Eliot. In the multiplication of images of ruins, artists, and writers she surveys, Stewart shows how these thinkers struggled to recover lessons out of the fragility or our cultural remains. She tries to understand the appeal in the West of ruins and ruination, particularly Roman ruins, in the work and thought of Goethe, Piranesi, Blake, and Wordsworth, whom she returns to throughout the book. Her sweeping, deeply felt study encompasses the founding legends of broken covenants and original sin; Christian transformations of the classical past; the myths and rituals of human fertility; images of ruins in Renaissance allegory, eighteenth-century melancholy, and nineteenth-century cataloguing; and new gardens that eventually emerged from ancient sites of disaster"--
Author: Susan Stewart Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 022679220X Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 401
Book Description
"In 'The Ruins Lesson,' the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning poet-critic Susan Stewart explores the West's fascination with ruins in literature, visual art, and architecture, covering a vast chronological and geographical range from the ancient Egyptians to T. S. Eliot. In the multiplication of images of ruins, artists, and writers she surveys, Stewart shows how these thinkers struggled to recover lessons out of the fragility or our cultural remains. She tries to understand the appeal in the West of ruins and ruination, particularly Roman ruins, in the work and thought of Goethe, Piranesi, Blake, and Wordsworth, whom she returns to throughout the book. Her sweeping, deeply felt study encompasses the founding legends of broken covenants and original sin; Christian transformations of the classical past; the myths and rituals of human fertility; images of ruins in Renaissance allegory, eighteenth-century melancholy, and nineteenth-century cataloguing; and new gardens that eventually emerged from ancient sites of disaster"--
Author: Burliss Parker Publisher: eBooks2go, Inc. ISBN: 1618130056 Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages :
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As you go through life, you will undoubtedly encounter crises that will leave you broken and wounded. These could be wounds from a shattered marriage, from a failed business partnership, or even from the elders, pastors, board members or teachers at a church. The question is how you will choose to respond when this occurs. Will you pick up the pieces and move on? Or will you merely content yourself to live in the ruins of your former life? From Ruins to Rebuilding draws on principles from the book of Nehemiah and demonstrates the process of Israelites went through to rebuild the walls of the city of Jerusalem after they were destroyed. These same principles can be used as a resource for pastors or counselors who are assisting people through difficult life experiences, or they can be used by any layperson who desires a step-by-step process for healing and rebuilding. If you have suffered loss and need healing and restoration, know that God has a n incredible purpose and future in store for you. It is time for you to step out of the ruins and gain a new vision, a new hope, a new promise and a new purpose. But you just take the first step and decide that you will no longer be a victim. From Ruins to Rebuilding will show you how to start the healing process and persevere until you reach wholeness in your life.
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