The poetics of space / Gaston Bachelard ; translated from the French by Maria Jolas ; with a new foreword by John R. Stilgoe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bachelard, Gaston, 1884-1962, author.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Jolas, M., translator.

Stilgoe, John R., 1949- writer of supplementary textual content.

Standardized Title:

Poétique de l'espace. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Space and time.

Imagination.

Poetry.

Filosofía francesa.

Filosofía de la arquitectura.

Local Subjects:

Filosofía francesa.

Filosofía de la arquitectura.

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxxix, 241 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

1994 edition.

Place of Publication:

Boston, Massachusetts : Beacon Press, 1994.

Language Note:

Translated from French.

Summary:

The classic book on how we experience intimate spaces. "A magical book. . . . A prism through which all worlds from literary creation to housework to aesthetics to carpentry take on enhanced- and enchanted-significances. Every reader of it will never see ordinary spaces in ordinary ways. Instead the reader will see with the soul of the eye, the glint of Gaston Bachelard." - from the foreword by John R. Stilgoe 6473-4 / $15.00tx / paperback

Contents:

The house. From cellar to garret. The significance of the hut

House and universe

Drawers, chests and wardrobes

Nests

Shells

Corners

Miniature

Intimate immensity

The dialectics of outside and inside

The phenomenology of roundness.

Notes:

Originally published: New York : Orion Press, 1964.

Includes bibliographical references.

Translation of: La poétique de l'espace.

ISBN:

0807064734

9780807064733

OCLC:

28423776

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