Architecture and modern literature

Architecture and modern literature / David Spurr.

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 historic...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Spurr, David, 1949- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, [2012]
Subjects:
1800-1999
Architecture and literature.
Space perception in literature.
Literature, Modern > 19th century > History and criticism.
Literature, Modern > 20th century > History and criticism.
ARCHITECTURE > General.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
Architecture and literature
Literature, Modern
Space perception in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of 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.

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