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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.
Author: Peter Selgin Publisher: University of Georgia Press ISBN: 9780820339696 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 256
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The stories in Drowning Lessons engage water as both a vital and a potentially hazardous presence in our lives. "You can touch water," says Peter Selgin, "you can taste it and feel its temperature, you can even hold it in your hands. Still it remains elusive, ill-defined, shaped only by what surrounds or contains it." With empathy and wit Selgin introduces us to characters navigating the choppy waters of human relationships. In "Swimming" an avid swimmer fights the stasis in his marriage by prodding his out-of-shape but contented wife to take up the sport—with near-disastrous results. A pond is the setting of "The Wolf House," which tells of the reunion and dissolution of a group of high school friends brought together for a funeral. "The Sinking Ship Man" chronicles a day in the life of an African American caretaker in charge of the only remaining survivor of the Titanic disaster. In "El Malecón" a toothless old Dominican tries to recapture his lost dignity by "borrowing" a shiny Cadillac convertible and aiming it down the coastal highway toward his childhood village. In "The Sea Cure" two travelers in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula confront death in the form of a mysterious woman living in an abandoned beachfront apartment complex. In all thirteen tales in Drowning Lessons, Selgin exhibits a keen eye for the forces that push people toward—and sometimes beyond—their very human limits, forces as intrinsic, elemental, and elusive as the liquid that makes up two-thirds of their bodies. These stories remind us that of all bodies of water, none is deeper or more dangerous than our own.
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