| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 244 pages) |
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Online access: OAPEN DOAB Directory of Open Access Books
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| Summary |
On the unstable boundaries between "interior" and "exterior," "private" and "public," and always in some way relating to a "beyond," the imagery of interior space in literature reveals itself as an often disruptive code of subjectivity and of modernity. The wide variety of interior spaces elicited in literature -- from the odd room over the womb, secluded parks, and train compartments, to the city as a world under a cloth -- reveal a common defining feature: these interiors can all be analyzed as codes of a paradoxical, both assertive and fragile, subjectivity in its own unique time and history. They function as subtexts that define subjectivity, time, and history as profoundly ambiguous realities, on interchangeable existential, socio-political, and epistemological levels. This volume addresses the imagery of interior spaces in a number of iconic and also lesser known yet significant authors of European, North American, and Latin American literature of the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries: Djuna Barnes, Edmond de Goncourt, William Faulkner, Gabriel García Márquez, Benito Pérez Galdós, Elsa Morante, Robert Musil, Jules Romains, Peter Waterhouse, and Émile Zola |
| Analysis |
Literary studies, interior design, architecture, cultural studies, spatiality |
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English |
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Space (Architecture) in literature.
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Literary theory.
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LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General
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Space (Architecture) in literature
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781950192199 |
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1950192199 |
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9781950192205 |
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1950192202 |
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