Signifying Ruins: The Wreck and Rebirth of Modernity, Language, and Representation

This study explores formal and thematic representations of ruins in twentieth century literary texts, including James Joyce’s Ulysses, T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children, and Adrienne Rich’s “Diving into the Wreck.” Analyzing these texts and concepts of ruins in the...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Farley, Audrey
Format: Others
Published: VCU Scholars Compass 2011
Subjects:
Online Access:http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/177
http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1176&context=etd