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  1. Earthquakes and gardens
    Saint Hilarion's Cyprus
    Published: 2023
    Publisher:  The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL ; London

    "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... more

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    "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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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9780226824567; 9780226823225
    Series: Class 200: new studies in religion
    Subjects: Garten <Motiv>; Erdbeben <Motiv>
    Other subjects: Hilarion Veronensis (1440-1516); Jerome / Saint / -419 or 420 / Vita S. Hilarionis Eremitae; Hilarion / Saint / approximately 291-approximately 371 / Homes and haunts / Cyprus; Earthquakes / Religious aspects; Earthquakes / Cyprus / Paphos; Excavations (Archaeology) / Cyprus / Paphos; Earthquakes in literature; Mountains in literature; Gardens in literature; Paphos (Cyprus) / In literature; Paphos (Cyprus) / History / To 1500; Hilarion / Saint / approximately 291-approximately 371; Vita S. Hilarionis Eremitae (Jerome, Saint); Earthquakes; Earthquakes in literature; Earthquakes / Religious aspects; Excavations (Archaeology); Gardens in literature; Homes; Literature; Mountains in literature; Cyprus; Cyprus / Paphos; To 1500; History
    Scope: x, 201 Seiten, Illustrationen
    Notes:

    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