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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Other Authors: Charley, Jonathan (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, [2019]
Series:Routledge companions.
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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.