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Unter der Überschrift Verhinderte Meisterwerke versammelt der Band literatur- und filmwissenschaftliche Aufsätze, die sich mit nicht-verwirklichten künstlerischen Vorhaben beschäftigen. Die thematisierten Projekte aus Literatur und Film sind alle - aus unterschiedlichen Gründen und auf verschiedene Weise - gescheitert: Aus Ideen wurden keine Texte, Textversuche blieben Fragmente, Entwürfe wurden vergessen, vernichtet oder gingen verloren. Vielleicht hätten diese Anläufe zu kanonischen Romanen oder Filmklassikern werden können. Bisher fand die Auseinandersetzung mit solchen Fällen des Scheiterns vorwiegend im Rahmen textkritischer Werkaufarbeitungen, in biographischen Einzelstudien oder in essayistischen Beiträgen statt. Der Sammelband will sie nun nebeneinanderstellen und auf wissenschaftlicher Ebene diskutieren. With our anthology (Prevented Masterpieces. Failed projects in literature and film) we turn to literary and cinematic projects that have failed for different reasons and in different ways. Ideas did not become texts, manuscripts involuntarily remained fragments, recordings were forgotten, destroyed or lost. Perhaps these attempts could have led to successful, groundbreaking and ultimately even canonic novels and blockbusters - if only they had been finalized.
Architecture --- Architecture in literature. --- Philosophy. --- Linguistics. --- Language and languages.
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On the unstable boundaries between “interior” and “exterior,” “private” and “public,” and always in some way relating to a “beyond,” the imagery of interior space in literature reveals itself as an often disruptive code of subjectivity and of modernity. The wide variety of interior spaces elicited in literature — from the odd room over the womb, secluded parks, and train compartments, to the city as a world under a cloth — reveal a common defining feature: these interiors can all be analyzed as codes of a paradoxical, both assertive and fragile, subjectivity in its own unique time and history. They function as subtexts that define subjectivity, time, and history as profoundly ambiguous realities, on interchangeable existential, socio-political, and epistemological levels. This volume addresses the imagery of interior spaces in a number of iconic and also lesser known yet significant authors of European, North American, and Latin American literature of the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries: Djuna Barnes, Edmond de Goncourt, William Faulkner, Gabriel García Márquez, Benito Pérez Galdós, Elsa Morante, Robert Musil, Jules Romains, Peter Waterhouse, and Émile Zola.
Literary theory --- Space (Architecture) in literature. --- literary studies --- interior design --- architecture --- cultural studies --- spatiality
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Die Untersuchung stellt sich die Frage, weshalb die ,Periegesis Hellados‘ des Pausanias aus dem 2. Jahrhundert n. Chr. so häufig Siedlungen und Gebäude im Zustand der Zerstörung thematisiert. Die ,Periegesis Hellados‘ unternimmt eine räumlich organisierte Zusammenstellung von Wissen, insbesondere zur myth-historischen Vergangenheit sowie zu den Kulten der Griechen, und schreibt sich auf diese Weise in zentrale Diskurse der Zweiten Sophistik ein. Die prominente Rolle, die zerstörte Architektur im Werk des Pausanias spielt, wurde bislang nicht systematisch analysiert. Hier setzt die Untersuchung an. Alle einschlägigen Textpartien werden vorgelegt und innerhalb zweier entscheidender Bezugshorizonte ausgewertet: zum einen im Rahmen der inhärenten Logik der ,Periegesis Hellados‘, zum anderen im Verhältnis zum zeitgenössischen Ruinendiskurs. Welch essenziellen Stellenwert die Ruine für die Programmatik und das Selbstverständnis des Textes einnimmt, kann auf diese Weise erstmals umfassend nachgezeichnet werden.
Ruins in literature. --- Architecture in literature. --- Pausanias, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Greece --- Description and travel
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This study examines the interdependence of gender, sexuality and space in the early modern period, which saw the inception of architecture as a discipline and gave rise to the first custodial institutions for women, including convents for reformed prostitutes. Meanwhile, conduct manuals established prescriptive mandates for female use of space, concentrating especially on the liminal spaces of the home. This work traces literary prostitution in the Spanish Mediterranean through the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, from the rise of courtesan culture in several key areas through the shift from tolerance of prostitution toward repression. Kuffner's analysis pairs canonical and noncanonical works of fiction with didactic writing, architectural treatises, and legal mandates, tying the literary practice of prostitution to increasing control over female sexuality during the Counter Reformation. By tracing erotic negotiations in the female picaresque novel from its origins through later manifestations, she demonstrates that even as societal attitudes towards prostitution shifted dramatically, a countervailing tendency to view prostitution as an essential part of the social fabric undergirds many representations of literary prostitutes. Kuffner's analysis reveals that the semblance of domestic enclosure figures as a primary eroticstrategy in female picaresque fiction, allowing readers to assess the variety of strategies used by authors to comment on the relationship between unruly female sexuality and social order.
Picaresque literature, Spanish --- Sex role in literature --- Architecture in literature --- History and criticism --- Sex role in literature. --- Architecture in literature. --- History and criticism. --- prostitution, literature, early modern, sexuality, space. --- Sociology of culture --- Thematology --- Spanish literature
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Long description: Betreten, Durchschreiten, Verlassen, Auf- und Absteigen, An- und Durchblicken: Architekturelemente wie das Fenster, der Korridor oder die Treppe stehen paradigmatisch für die Aktivierung des Raums in der Bewegung von Blicken und Körpern. Der vorliegende Sammelband widmet sich literarischen und (architektur-)theoretischen Texten, die eine besondere Sensibilität für solche Raum-Operationen haben. Damit leistet der Band einen Beitrag zum spatial turn, im Zuge dessen die Kulturwissenschaften der letzten zwei Jahrzehnte Räumlichkeit zu ihrem ureigenen Gegenstand machten. Anhand von Autoren wie Georges Perec, Virginia Wolf oder Heinrich Böll, von Architekten wie Le Corbusier oder Bernard Tschumi sowie von Theoretikern wie Jurij Lotman oder Jacques Derrida wird augenscheinlich, dass Raum keine abstrakte Kategorie ist, sondern nur über seine Verwendung in ästhetisch-historischen Kontexten verstanden werden kann. Fenster, Treppe und Korridor werden so als Wahrnehmungsdispositive verständlich, die Kulturgeschichte räumlich fassen, fassbar machen und letztlich selbst Geschichte(n) schreiben. Ohne Anspruch auf Vollständigkeit oder Abgeschlossenheit bietet der Band einen Einblick in aktuelle Forschungsdebatten um einen erweiterten, kultur- und literaturwissenschaftlichen Architektur- und Raumbegriff.
Windows in literature --- Windows in art --- Stairs in art --- Architecture in art --- Architecture in literature --- Staircases in literature
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We spend our lives moving through passages, hallways, corridors and gangways, yet they do not feature in architectural histories, monographs or guidebooks. They are overlooked, undervalued and unregarded; seen as unlovely parts of a building’s infrastructure rather than ‘architecture’. This book is the first definitive history of the corridor, from its origins in country houses and utopian communities in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, through reformist Victorian prisons, hospitals and asylums, to the ‘corridors of power’, bureaucratic labyrinths, and housing estates of the twentieth century. The book takes in wide range of sources, from architectural history to fiction, film and TV, to explore how the corridor went from a utopian ideal to a place of unease: the archetypal stuff of nightmares.
Corridors. --- Couloirs --- Corridors --- Architecture and society --- Architecture in literature --- Architecture in motion pictures --- Motion pictures --- Architecture --- Architecture and sociology --- Society and architecture --- Sociology and architecture --- Concourses --- Galleries (Corridors) --- Halls --- Hallways --- Passage-ways --- Passages (Corridors) --- Passageways --- Buildings --- Social aspects --- Human factors --- Architecture and society. --- Architecture in literature. --- Architecture in motion pictures.
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Jennifer C. Vaught illustrates how architectural rhetoric in Shakespeare and Spenser provides a bridge between the human body and mind and the nonhuman world of stone and timber. The recurring figure of the body as a besieged castle in Shakespeare's drama and Spenser's allegory reveals that their works are mutually based on medieval architectural allegories exemplified by the morality play The Castle of Perseverance. Intertextual and analogous connections between the generically hybrid works of Shakespeare and Spenser demonstrate how they conceived of individuals not in isolation from the physical environment but in profound relation to it. This book approaches the interlacing of identity and place in terms of ecocriticism, posthumanism, cognitive theory, and Cicero's art of memory. Architectural Rhetoric in Shakespeare and Spenser examines figures of the permeable body as a fortified, yet vulnerable structure in Shakespeare's comedies, histories, tragedies, romances, and Sonnets and in Spenser's Faerie Queene and Complaints.
Architecture in literature. --- Architecture. --- English Renaissance Literature. --- Environment. --- Rhetoric. --- Shakespeare. --- Spenser. --- Architektur --- Symbolism in literature. --- Mind and body in literature. --- Signs and symbols in literature --- Symbolism in folk literature --- Spenser, Edmund --- Shakespeare, William --- Spenser, Edmund, --- Shakespeare, William, --- Criticism and interpretation.
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