Ruins, or, The Ethical Logic of Traumatic Capitalism, with Special Reference to Peter Ackroyd
Even if Ackroyd revisits some topoi of the romantic vision of Englishness by apprehending ruins in sublime terms, his use of a poetics of ruins is less concerned with a moral or aesthetic function than with an ethical one. The ruins image seems to have evolved from the domain of the predominantly ae...
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Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée
2014-07-01
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| Series: | Études Britanniques Contemporaines |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/ebc/1329 |