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Cities in Ruins
Cecilia Enjuto Rangel
其他書名
The Politics of Modern Poetics
出版Purdue University Press, 2010
主題Literary Criticism / PoetryLiterary Criticism / Modern / 20th CenturyLiterary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / General
ISBN155753571X9781557535719
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=VM9d2yWR0ToC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋The attacks in New York on September 11, 2001, and in Madrid on March 11, 2004, provoked diverse political reactions, but the imminence of the ruins triggered a collective historical awakening. In Cities in Ruins, Cecilia Enjuto Rangel argues that the portrayal in poetry of the modern city as a disintegrated, ruined space is part of a critique of the visions of progress and the historical process of modernization that developed during the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century. Enjuto Rangel's study investigates the virtually unexplored map of modern ruins in modern poetry. She interprets modern poetry on ruins as a critique of both capitalist definitions of progress and the devastating effects of modern warfare. Furthermore, she argues that the representation of ruins provokes a "historical awakening" that empowers the text, and the reader, with political and historical agency.