Ruins and Fragments by Robert Harbison

Ruins and Fragments by Robert Harbison

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Ruins and Fragments is a wide-ranging, elliptical and engaging view of the history of modernity through the lens of the ruined and fragmentary. It explores literary fragments such as the plays of Aeschylus, as well as how writers – such as Joyce, Coleridge, Pound and T. S. Eliot – exploit fragmentary techniques and forms.

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Ruins and Fragments by Robert Harbison

Ruins and Fragments is a wide-ranging, elliptical and engaging view of the history of modernity through the lens of the ruined and fragmentary. It explores literary fragments such as the plays of Aeschylus, as well as how writers such as Joyce, Coleridge, Pound and T. S. Eliot exploit fragmentary techniques and forms.
Robert Harbison is former Professor of Architecture at London Metropolitan University. He is the author of many books including Eccentric Spaces (1977), The Built, the Unbuilt and the Unbuildable (1991), Reflections on Baroque (Reaktion, 2000), Travels in the History of Architecture (Reaktion, 2010) and Ruins and Fragments: Tales of Loss and Rediscovery (Reaktion, 2015).
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ISBN 13 9781780234472
ISBN 10 1780234473
Title Ruins and Fragments
Author Robert Harbison
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Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Reaktion Books
Year published 2015-05-01
Number of pages 208
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