‘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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Catherine Hoffmann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée 2012-12-01
Series:Études Britanniques Contemporaines
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/ebc/1324