The Routledge Companion on Architecture, Literature and the City

ISBN-13: 9781472482730 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 420 str.

Jonathan Charley

Opis

This Companion breaks new ground in our knowledge and understanding of the diverse relationships between literature, architecture, and the city, which together form a field of interdisciplinary research that is innovative and exciting.

Spis treści

Preface Foreword Introduction Section I History, Narrative And Genre 1. Taking The Measure Of The Incommensurable 2. Modernity As Ambiguity 3. Domestic Digressions 4. Plots Of Land 5. Inequality In Aluísio Azevedo’s O Cortiço 6. An Unliteral Construct 7. "Cityful Passing Away, Other Cityful Coming, Passing Away Too…" 8. Written Cities 9. The Architecture Of Yi Sang’s Nalgae 10. The Cold War Finds A Common Home Section II Strategy, Language And Form 11. Literary Language And Architectural Meaning 12. False Landscape Syndrome 13. The City In The Brazilian Novel 14. Magic Mirrors 15. Volver A No Saber 16. Writing Atmospheres 17. The Laboratory Of Literary Architecture 18. Glasgow’s Italian Centres 19. `Stop Leaning Against The Wall – It’s Wet!’ 20. Comics And Architecture 21. Figuring Speech

O autorze

Jonathan Charley is currently Director of Cultural Studies at the Department of Architecture at the University of Strathclyde, UK.