Earthquakes and gardens: Saint Hilarion's Cyprus
Part one: Points of departure. Memories; Three notes on method; Setting out, with Jerome -- Part two: Paphos. Poetry and place; Curating earthquakes; Life in ruins -- Part three: The mountain. Geographies of the remote; Entropic gardens; Literary cartographies -- Part four: Coda. An ocean of possibi...
| Subtitles: | Saint Hilarion's Cyprus |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Published: |
Chicago London
The University of Chicago Press
2023
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| In: | Year: 2023 |
| Series/Journal: | Class 200: new studies in religion
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Hilarion, Veronensis 1440-1516
/ Garden (Motif)
/ Earthquake (Motif)
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| IxTheo Classification: | KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history |
| Further subjects: | B
Earthquakes in literature
B Paphos (Cyprus) History To 1500 B Mountains in literature B Earthquakes Religious aspects B Excavations (archaeology) (Cyprus) (Paphos) B Gardens in literature B Hilarion Saint (approximately 291-approximately 371) Homes and haunts (Cyprus) B Paphos (Cyprus) In literature B Jerome Saint (-419 or 420) Vita S. Hilarionis Eremitae B Earthquakes (Cyprus) (Paphos) |
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| Summary: | Part one: Points of departure. Memories; Three notes on method; Setting out, with Jerome -- Part two: Paphos. Poetry and place; Curating earthquakes; Life in ruins -- Part three: The mountain. Geographies of the remote; Entropic gardens; Literary cartographies -- Part four: Coda. An ocean of possibility. "In Earthquakes and Gardens, professor of religion Virginia Burrus pursues an earthquake from the deep past and tracks the fallen monuments and resurgent gardens of a distant city. The starting point is Hilarion, a Christian saint who saw the recorded intensity of a mighty quake in the toppled buildings of fourth-century Cyprus. In The Life of Saint Hilarion, written in 390, we see those buildings through Saint Hilarion's eyes in just a few lines. Building out from this fragment of text and the mental images that come with it, Burrus delivers a remarkable set of meditations on the human experience of place. Earthquakes and Gardens is a methodological experiment in close and promiscuous reading, an exercise in place-centered rumination, and a powerful set of observations on destruction and resilience. The scale ranges from the deeply personal to the massive and collective. In Burrus's capable hands, earthquakes and gardens anchor us in our textual fragments while also drawing us elsewhere, opening onto more-than-human worlds that are both concrete and metaphorical, close and distant"-- |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 0226823229 |