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Ornament as crisis : architecture, design, and modernity in Hermann Broch's The sleepwalkers / Sarah McGaughey.
Van Pelt Library PT2603.R657 S326 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McGaughey, Sarah, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Broch, Hermann, 1886-1951. Schlafwandler.
- Broch, Hermann.
- Broch, Hermann, 1886-1951--Criticism and interpretation.
- Broch, Hermann, 1886-1951.
- Architecture in literature.
- Modernism (Literature)--Germany.
- Modernism (Literature).
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Germany.
- Schlafwandler (Broch, Hermann).
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 219 pages ; 23 cm
- Other Title:
- Architecture, design, and modernity in Hermann Broch's The sleepwalkers
- Place of Publication:
- Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- Ornament as Crisis explores the ways in which the novels of Hermann Broch's Sleepwalkers (Schlafwandler) trilogy participate in and employ the history of architecture and architectural theory. Beginning with the visual and architectural experiences of the figures in each novel, Sarah McGaughey analyzes the role of architecture in the trilogy as a whole, while discussing work by Broch's contemporaries on architecture. She argues that The Sleepwalkers allows us to better understand how literature responds and contributes to social, theoretical and spatial concepts of architecture. Ornament as Crisis guides readers through the spaces of Broch's modernist masterpiece and the architectural debates of his time. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Searching for the spatial representation of modern experience in 1888 : Pasenow oder die Romantik
- Early twentieth-century architecture and visual experience in 1903 : Esch oder die Anarchie
- The social function of architecture : architectural experience in 1918 : Huguenau oder die Sachlichkeit
- Structural engineering and the architectonics of The sleepwalkers.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780810131873
- 0810131870
- 9780810131897
- 0810131897
- 9780810131880
- 0810131889
- OCLC:
- 908991422
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