The Routledge companion on architecture, literature and the city. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: [edited by] Jonathan Charley.
• Editors: Charley, Jonathan
• 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.
• Publisher Details: Abingdon, Oxon New York, NY : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 809/.93357; Architecture and literature; Space (Architecture) in literature; Architecture in literature; Cities and towns in literature; Architecture and literature; Architecture in literature; Cities and towns in literature; Space (Architecture) in literature; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781315613154; 1315613158; 9781317042877; 1317042875
• Related ISBNs: 9781472482730; 1472482735
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Print version record.
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