Earthquakes and gardens : Saint Hilarion's Cyprus / Virginia Burrus.
| Author/creator |
Burrus, Virginia author. |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | Chicago, IL ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2023. |
| Copyright Notice | ̐u2023 |
| Description | x, 201 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
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| Portion of title | Saint Hilarion's Cyprus |
| Series | Class 200: new studies in religion Class 200, new studies in religion. ^A1316308 |
| Contents | 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. |
| Abstract | "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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2022021773 |
| ISBN | 9780226824567 |
| ISBN | 9780226823225 hardcover |
| ISBN | 0226823229 hardcover |
| ISBN | 022682456X paperback |
| ISBN | electronic book |
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