Robert Pogue Harrison

Broschiertes Buch

Gardens

An Essay on the Human Condition

Beschreibung

Humans have long turned to gardens - both real and imaginary - for sanctuary from the frenzy and tumult that surrounds them. This book offers an examination of the many ways gardens evoke the human condition. It shows how the garden has served as a check against the destruction and losses of history.

Autor

Robert Pogue Harrison is the Rosina Pierotti Professor in Italian Literature and chairs the Department of French and Italian at Stanford University. He is the author of The Body of Beatrice, Forests: The Shadow of Civilization, The Dominion of the Dead, Gardens: An Essay on the Human Condition, and Juvenescence: A Cultural History of Our Age, the latter three published by the University of Chicago Press. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is also host of the radio program Entitled Opinions on Stanford's station KZSU 90.1.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Chicago Press
• Repr.
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 141mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9780226317908
• ISBN-10: 0226317900
• Artikelnr.: 26523842