‘Vistas framed by a ruined door’: Anthony Powell’s Poetics of Ruins
‘There is something inherently beautiful in ruined shapes’, Anthony Powell observed in his review of Rose Macaulay’s Pleasure of Ruins, later giving expression in his fiction to the aesthetic delight experienced in the contemplation of ruined buildings. In A Dance to the Music of Time, his major pos...
Main Author: | Catherine Hoffmann |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée
2012-12-01
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Series: | Études Britanniques Contemporaines |
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Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/ebc/1324 |
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