Avengers: The Initiative, Volume 3: Secret Invasion
(Part of the Secret Invasion Series, Avengers: The Initiative (Collected Editions) (#3) Series, and Avengers: The Initiative (Single Issues) Series)
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From fires to ghosts, and from flowers to surrealist apparitions, the bombsites of London were both unsettling and inspiring terrains. Yet throughout the years prior to the Second World War, British culture was already filled with ruins and fragments. They appeared as content, with visions of tottering towers and scraps of paper; and also as form, in the shapes of broken poetics. But from the outbreak of the Second World War what had been an aesthetic mode began to resemble a proleptic template. During that conflict many modernist writers such as Graham Greene, Louis MacNeice, David Jones, J. F. Hendry, Elizabeth Bowen, T. S. Eliot and Rose Macaulay engaged with devastated cityscapes and the altered lives of a nation at war. To understand the potency of the bombsites, both in the Second World War and after, Reading the Ruins brings together poetry, novels and short stories, as well as film and visual art.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0785131507
ISBN13:9780785131502
Release Date:January 2009
Publisher:Marvel Comics Group
Length:144 Pages
Weight:2.00 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 7.0" x 10.4"
Age Range:13 years and up
Grade Range:Grade 8 and higher
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