How we learn where we live : Thomas Bernhard, architecture, and bildung / Fatima Naqvi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Naqvi, Fatima, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bernhard, Thomas--Criticism and interpretation.

Bernhard, Thomas.

Architecture and literature.

Education in literature.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xix, 214 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2015.

Summary:

"In one of the first English studies of Thomas Bernhard, Fatima Naqvi focuses on the Austrian author's critique of education (Bildung) through the edifices in which it takes place. His writings insist that learning has always been a life-long process that is helped--or hindered--by the particular buildings in which Bildung occurs. Naqvi offers close readings of Bernhard's major prose works, from Amras (1964) to Old Masters (1985) and brings them into dialogue with major architectural debates of the times. She examines Bernard's interrogation of the theoretical foundations underpinning the educational system and its actual sites. How We Learn Where We Live opens new avenues into thinking about one of the most provocative writers of the twentieth century"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Way Station 1 From Box to Cone 31

Chapter 1 Visionary Architecture of the 1960s in "Plain/Plane" (1973) 37

Way Station 2 Elementary Structures and Perforated Space 59

Chapter 2 Middle Positions and Mystical Moments in Armas (1964) 69

Way Station 3 The Scbauraum and the Quick Read 95

Chapter 3 The Museum and the Method in Old Masters (1985) 99

Way Station 4 Dislodged 123.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Naqvi, Fatima, author. How we learn where we live

ISBN:

9780810132016

081013201X

9780810131996

0810131994

OCLC:

908991425