Images of ruins may represent the raw realities created by bombs, natural disasters, or factory closings, but the way we see and understand ruins is not raw or unmediated. Rather, looking at ruins, writing about them, and representing them, are acts framed by a long tradition. This unique interdisciplinary collection traces discourses about and representations of ruins from a r...(展开全部)

Images of ruins may represent the raw realities created by bombs, natural disasters, or factory closings, but the way we see and understand ruins is not raw or unmediated. Rather, looking at ruins, writing about them, and representing them, are acts framed by a long tradition. This unique interdisciplinary collection traces discourses about and representations of ruins from a r...(展开全部)

Between 1991 and 2015, Josef Koudelka completed an epic journey across twenty countries bordering the Mediterranean, stopping at over 200 Greek and Roman archaeological sites, relentlessly researching the beauty of the ancient world. Before the Magnum photographer, nobody had attempted to make such a comprehensive photographic record of these artefacts with so much persistence ...(展开全部)

Between 1991 and 2015, Josef Koudelka completed an epic journey across twenty countries bordering the Mediterranean, stopping at over 200 Greek and Roman archaeological sites, relentlessly researching the beauty of the ancient world. Before the Magnum photographer, nobody had attempted to make such a comprehensive photographic record of these artefacts with so much persistence ...(展开全部)

劳拉·布朗（Laura Brown），美国康奈尔大学英文系教授、系主任，研究领域为18世纪英国文学与文化，担任美国18世纪研究学会主席。主要研究专著包括《帝国的终结：18世纪早期英国文学中的女性和意识形态》（Ends of Empire: Womenand Ideology in Early Eighteenth-Century English Literature，康奈尔大学出版社1993年），《现代性的寓言：18世纪英国的文学与文化》（Fables of Modernity: Literature and Culture in the EnglishEighteenth Century，康奈尔大学出版社2001年），《流浪狗和忧郁的猿：现代文学想象中的人和动物》（Homeless Dogs and Melancholy Apes: Humans ...(展开全部)

劳拉·布朗（Laura Brown），美国康奈尔大学英文系教授、系主任，研究领域为18世纪英国文学与文化，担任美国18世纪研究学会主席。主要研究专著包括《帝国的终结：18世纪早期英国文学中的女性和意识形态》（Ends of Empire: Womenand Ideology in Early Eighteenth-Century English Literature，康奈尔大学出版社1993年），《现代性的寓言：18世纪英国的文学与文化》（Fables of Modernity: Literature and Culture in the EnglishEighteenth Century，康奈尔大学出版社2001年），《流浪狗和忧郁的猿：现代文学想象中的人和动物》（Homeless Dogs and Melancholy Apes: Humans ...(展开全部)

When Adam Kussgarten's twin brother is found gunned down just yards from his flat, Adam is drawn out of his solitary, dream-like life into a neon-lit world of forgery, deceit and violence. The Ruins is the story of twin brothers - Adam and Brandon - who haven't spoken for decades, When Brandon is found gunned down just streets from Adam's flat, Brandon's girlfriend enlists Adam...(展开全部)

This book takes an affectionate journey around some of the atmospheric and occasionally mysterious ruins and follies that can be found in East Anglia. It might be a building that has a particular hi

In an exploration of the complex relations between women and the modernity. She also calls into question those feminist perspectives that have either demonized the modern as inherently partiarchal, or else assumed a simple opposition between men's and women's experiences of the modern world. Combining cultural history with cultural theory, and focusing on the fin de siecle, Fel...(展开全部)

In this major theoretical statement, the author offers a new and provoctive interpretation of institutional transformations associated with modernity. What is modernity? The author suggests, "As a first approximation, let us simply say the following: 'modernity' refers to modes of social life or organization which emerged in Europe from about the seventeenth century onwards and...(展开全部)