Cities in Ruins. The Politics of Modern Poetics, Paperback/Cecilia Enjuto Rangel

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. Publisher: Purdue University Press Author(s): Cecilia Enjuto Rangel Number of pages: 376 Collection: Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures Publication date: 2010 Cover type: Paperback / softback