Archetype, Architecture, and the Writer

Inbunden, Engelska, 1986

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Beskrivning

"Altogether, the work is a delight, offering an unusual, provocative view on the disparate texts, with the added pleasure of lucid graceful prose." —Journal of Modern LiteratureBettina Knapp probes the nature, meaning, and use of the architectural metaphors and archetypes that pervade all literature.

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Utgivningsdatum:1986-04-22
Mått:152 x 229 x undefined mm
Vikt:567 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:228
Förlag:Indiana University Press
ISBN:9780253308573

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"Altogether, the work is a delight, offering an unusual, provocative view on the disparate texts, with the added pleasure of lucid graceful prose." Journal of Modern Literature

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction1. Ibsen: The Master Builder-Emptiness, an Architectural Archetype2. Maeterlinck: The Intruder and Interior-An Architectural Archetype of Introversion3. James: "The Jolly Corner"-The Entrapped Shadow in the Archetypal House4. Ansky: "The Tower of Rome"-An Architectural Archetype of the Self-Made Man5. Kafka: The Castle-The Archetypal Land Surveyor6. Lorca: The House of Bernarda Alba-A Hermaphroditic Martriarchate7. Borges: "The Library of Babel"- The Archetypal Hexagonal Gallery8. Fuentes: "In a Flemish Garden"-A Parapsychological Happening in an Architectural Construct9. Wang Shih-Fu: The Romance of the Western Chamber-The Architectonic Archetype10. Mishima: The Temple of the Golden Pavilion-An Archetypal Feminine Sun and an Archetypal Masculine MoonConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex