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Parry, Jason Rhys.

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Ruinology: Speculative Reconstruction in Literature and Architecture.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Ruinology: Speculative Reconstruction in Literature and Architecture./
Author:	Parry, Jason Rhys.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2017,
Description:	203 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-03(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International79-03A(E).
Subject:	Romance literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10642086
ISBN:	9780355507621

Ruinology: Speculative Reconstruction in Literature and Architecture.
Parry, Jason Rhys.

Ruinology: Speculative Reconstruction in Literature and Architecture. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2017 - 203 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-03(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--State University of New York at Binghamton, 2017.

This dissertation constitutes an explanation, demonstration and defense of the neologism coined in its title: ruinology. As a concept, ruinology does not yet exist. What follows, therefore, is a justification of its being called into being. Ruinology, succinctly stated, is the study of the speculative reconstruction of ruins. As such, its remit encompasses a disparate set of practices carried out in divergent settings, from courtrooms to cultural museums. What is consistent, however, across these diverse instantiations of speculative reconstruction is a common project and problem. In each case, material absences in ruins create spaces for conflicting interpretations of extant empirical evidence. In this dissertation, I analyze the work of two individuals: a novelist, Marguerite Yourcenar, and an architect, Eyal Weizman, whose works dramatize and theorize the central problem of ruinology: that is, how to reconstruct a form or event from the ruins that remain? I have selected Eyal Weizman and Marguerite Yourcenar's works as case studies because, despite the disciplinary gulf separating them, both are attuned to the capacity of ruins to store and transmit information. While Weizman utilizes remote sensing and computer simulations to convert traces left in ruins into evidence of human rights violations, Yourcenar weaves immersive historical novels out of a tattered historical record. In pursuing their reconstructions, Weizman and Yourcenar both demonstrate that historical knowledge is simultaneously dependent on and endangered by speculation; and, furthermore, that absences play an irreducible role in the interpretation of material remains.

ISBN: 9780355507621Subjects--Topical Terms:

2144781
Romance literature.

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