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.

• | By (Author): Cecilia Enjuto Rangel
• | Publisher: Purdue University Press
• | Publication Date: Nov 15, 2010
• | Country of Publication: United States
• | Number of Pages: 376 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Softback
• | ISBN-10: 155753571X
• | ISBN-13: 9781557535719