Cities in Ruins: The Politics of Modern Poetics

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.

• | Author: Cecilia Enjuto Rangel
• | Publisher: Purdue University Press
• | Publication Date: Nov 15, 2010
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9781557535719
• | ISBN-10: 155753571X