Spatial Perspectives

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Essays on Literature and Architecture

Terri Mullholland, Nicole Sierra, Nicole Sierra

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English

Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
24 November 2015

Theory of architecture; Literary theory

Series: Cultural Interactions: Studies in the Relationship between the Arts

This interdisciplinary collection explores the dynamic relationship between literature and architecture from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Contributions take the reader on a journey through unexplored byways, from Istanbul to New York to London, from event spaces to domestic interiors to the fictional buildings of the novel.

Topics include the building of imaginary spaces, such as the architectural models of comic book worlds created by the cartoonist Seth and the Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk, which is both novel and building. Real architectural spaces are recontextualized through literature: reading the work of Louis Kahn through his personal library and envisioning the writing haven of James Baldwin through his novels. Another approach links literary style with architectural form, as in the work of the New York School poets, who reformulate the built environment on the page. Architectural landmarks like Robert Stevensons Roundhouse (1847), Joseph Paxtons Crystal Palace for the Great Exhibition and the 2012 Olympic Park are reconsidered as counter-narratives of postcolonialism and empire, and the New York skyline is examined alongside literature and visual culture.

This collection demonstrates the reciprocal exchange that exists between the disciplines of literature and architecture and promotes new ways of understanding these interactions.

Edited by: Terri Mullholland, Nicole Sierra, Nicole Sierra
Imprint: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Country of Publication: Switzerland
Edition: New edition
Volume: 37
Dimensions: Height: 225mm, Width: 150mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 420g
ISBN: 9783034317719
ISBN 10: 3034317719
Series: Cultural Interactions: Studies in the Relationship between the Arts
Pages: 264
Publication Date: 24 November 2015
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Contents: Terri Mullholland/Nicole Sierra: Introduction – Douglas Tallack: Tall Stories: New York Skyscrapers in Art and Literature – Julian Ferraro: Comics and the Architecture of Nostalgia: Seth’s Dominion City – Nathaniel Robert Walker: Crystallizing Visions: Glass Architecture in Utopian Literature before and after 1851 – Henderson Downing: To the Roundhouse: Returning London Psychogeography – Lisa Mullen: Literature and Distraction: Poetic Inscription at the 2012 London Olympics and the 1951 Festival of Britain – Darren R. Deane: Louis Kahn’s Translation of the Fairy Tale: A Study in Literary-Architectural Interaction – Esra Almas: Representation, Refuse and the Urban Context in Orhan Pamuk’s Museum(s) of Innocence – Greg Thomas: The Tower of Babel: Concrete Poetry and Architecture in Britain and Beyond – Yasmine Shamma: ‘Room in the room that you room in?’: Ted Berrigan’s Structures – Magdalena J. Zaborowska: No House in the World for James Baldwin: Reading Transnational Black Queer Domesticity in St Paul-de-Vence.

Terri Mullholland teaches in the Department for Continuing Education at the University of Oxford. Her teaching and research interests are in early twentieth-century womens writing and modernism. She has published articles on Jean Rhys and Dorothy Richardson and her monograph British Boarding Houses in Interwar Womens Literature: Alternative Domestic Spaces is forthcoming. Nicole Sierra is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Department of English at Kings College London, where she teaches twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature and critical theory. She is currently finishing a monograph on architecture, literature and postmodernism and working on a book project on the British-born Surrealist Leonora Carrington.