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...
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VCU Scholars Compass
2011
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| Online Access: | http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/177 http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1176&context=etd |