Architecture and modern literature /

"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 hi...

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Main Author: Spurr, David, 1949-
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2012]
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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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. David Spurr addresses a broad range of material, including literary, critical, and philosophical works in English, French, and German, and proposes a new historical and theoretical overview of this area, in which modern forms of "meaning" in architecture and literature are related to the discourses of being, dwelling, and homelessness."--Project Muse.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xi, 285 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780472028245
0472028243
9780472900800
0472900803