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oapen-20.500.12657-252692022-07-21T14:39:47Z The Imagery of Interior Spaces Bauer, Dominique Kelly, Michael J. literary studies interior design architecture cultural studies spatiality bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DS Literature: history & criticism::DSA Literary theory 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. 2019-04-12 23:55 2020-01-23 14:09:07 2020-04-01T10:32:40Z 2020-04-01T10:32:40Z 2019 book 1004825 OCN: 1100539650 9781950192205 9781950192199 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25269 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International 1004825.pdf punctum books 10.21983/P3.0248.1.00 10.21983/P3.0248.1.00 979dc044-00ee-4ea2-affc-b08c5bd42d13 9781950192205 9781950192199 ScholarLed 244 Brooklyn, NY open access
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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.
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