On Exploring Craft

Dr. Beatrice L. Bridglall is Fulbright Specialist in Higher Education; Chair of the Advisory Board for Student Success in Higher Education in New Jersey; and faculty affiliate at New York University–East China Normal University, Institute for Social Development at NYU Shanghai.

At a time in which a heated debate rages over whether education should be vocational or liberal, this book makes a much needed contribution. It applies the tenets of architecture to illuminate great works of literature, demonstrating that the useful arts and liberal tradition are inextricably intertwined.

• Foreword by Rochelle Hendricks, Secretary of New Jersey Higher EducationPreface and Organization of the BookAcknowledgments Chapter 1: Writers as Architects: Exploring Parallel Concepts in Architecture and Literature Chapter 2: A Meditation on Lines, Direction, Movement and Mass: The Poems of Marina TsvetaevaChapter 3: Light, Color and Space in Select Poems by Robert Hass Chapter 4: Glimpses of Proportion and Symmetry: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great GatsbyChapter 5: Unraveling Texture in William Faulkner’s Light in AugustChapter 6: Toward Plumbing Architectural and Narrative Space in Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea, “Soldier’s Home”, and “A Clean Well-Lighted Place”Chapter 7: Tension, Compression and Pacing in Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita and PninChapter 8: Exploring Pattern and Rhythm: Alice Munro’s “Dulse” and “Labor Day Dinner”Chapter 9: Appreciating Unity and Harmony in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the DayChapter 10: The Role of Order and Propriety in William Gass’ In the Heart of the Heart of the CountryChapter 11: Investigating Balance in Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary and The First Sentimental EducationReferencesIndexAbout the Author