Architecture and Modern Literature / David A. Spurr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spurr, David A., author.

Contributor:

Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture and literature.

Space and perception in literature.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (300 pages) : illustrations, figures, tables

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2012.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Architecture and Modern Literature explores the representation and interpretation of architectural space in modern literature from the early nineteenth century to the present, with the aim of showing how literary production and architectural construction are related as cultural forms in the historical context of modernity. In addressing this subject, it also examines the larger questions of the relation between literature and architecture and the extent to which these two arts define one another in the social and philosophical contexts of modernity. Architecture and Modern Literature will serve as a foundational introduction to the emerging interdisciplinary study of architecture and literature.

Contents:

An end to dwelling: architectural and literary modernisms

Demonic spaces: Sade, Dickens, Kafka

Allegories of the gothic in the long nineteenth century

Figures of ruin and restoration: Ruskin and Viollet-le-duc

Proust's interior Venice

Monumental displacement in Ulysses

Architecture in Frost and Stevens

Annals of junkspace: architectural disaffection in contemporary literature.

Notes:

This title was made Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched.

Description based on information from the publisher.

ISBN:

9780472071715

0472071718

9780472051717

0472051717

9780472028245

0472028243

Publisher Number:

10.3998/mpub.4350173

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.