Besieged Leningrad : : Aesthetic Responses to Urban Disaster / / Polina Barskova.
During the 872 days of the Siege of Leningrad (September 1941 to January 1944), the city's inhabitants were surrounded by the military forces of Nazi Germany. They suffered famine, cold, and darkness, and a million people lost their lives, making the siege one of the most destructive in history...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2021] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (232 p.) :; 11 illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Transliteration and Translations
- INTRODUCTION
- WALKING THROUGH THE SIEGE Routes, Routines, and the Paths of the Imagination
- SPATIALIZED ALLEGORY Speaking Dystrophy Otherwise
- PARADOXES OF SIEGE VISION Darkness, Blindness, and Knowledge
- FRAMING THE SIEGE SUBLIME Urban Spectacle and Cultural Memory
- THE SPATIAL PRACTICE OF SIEGE READING
- READING INTO THE SIEGE Heterochronic Directions of Escapist Reading
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index