The Routledge companion on architecture, literature and the city /
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 one of the most innovative and exciting to have emerged in recent years. Bringing together...
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London ; New York :
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[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- Constructing narratives and narrative construction / Jonathan Charley
- Taking the measure of the incommensurable: architectural representation of the improbable / Louise Pelletier
- Modernity as ambiguity: in Vikram Chandra's Sacred Games / Shari Daya
- Domestic digressions: interrogating Singaporean public housing through its literary forms / Lillian Chee
- Plots of land: urban regeneration in contemporary British procedural novels / Peter Clandfield
- Inequality in Aluísio Azevedo's O Cortiço / Ana Baltazar
- An unliteral construct: the architecture of Graham Greene's "The Destructors": a sedimentary lesson in post-war social change / Johnny Rodgers
- "Cityful passing away, other cityful coming, passing away too": Dublin, Mexico City, Tokyo / Angeliki Sioli
- Written cities: utopian fiction, spatial ordering, and absurdity / Malcolm Miles
- The architecture of Yi Sang's Nalgae / Yoonchun Jung
- The Cold War finds a common home: the intertwined worlds of Philip K. Dick and the Strugatsky Brothers / Jonathan Charley
- Literary language and architectural meaning: mood in Alain Robbe-Grillet's House of Jealousy / Alberto Perez Gomez
- False landscape syndrome: the poetry and propaganda of Andrew Jordan / Owen Hatherley
- The city in the Brazilian novel: posthumous memoirs and other writings / Csaba Deak
- Magic mirrors: reconstructing lost interiors from instructional and constructional writing / Ed Hollis
- Volver a no saber: poetry, architecture and the beginnings of open city / Kristen Kreider & James O'Leary
- Writing atmospheres: literary methods to investigate the thresholds of atmospheres / Klaske Havik
- The laboratory of literary architecture: the joy of cardboard, glue and storytelling: a cross-disciplinary exploration of literature as architecture / Matteo Pericoli and a dialogue between Jonathan Charley and Carola Hilfrich
- Glasgow's Italian centres: narrative, identity, regeneration / Sarah Edwards
- "Stop leaning against the wall. It's wet!": writing on the wall and urban space / Inga Bryden
- Comics and architecture: a reading guide / Koldo Lus Arana
- Figuring speech: before and after writing / Jane Rendell.