Overview
Sheds light on the intimate relationship between built space and the mind
Explores of the role of the house, a recurrent, even haunting, image in art and literature, from classical times to the present day
Provides fresh insights into the spiritual, social, and imaginative significance of built space
Reveals how engagement with real and imagined architectural structures has long been a way of understanding the intangible workings of the mind itself
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Reading Literary Architectures
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Architectures of the Literary Imagination
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About this book
This book sheds light on the intimate relationship between built space and the mind, exploring the ways in which architecture inhabits and shapes both the memory and the imagination. Examining the role of the house, a recurrent, even haunting, image in art and literature from classical times to the present day, it includes new work by both leading scholars and early career academics, providing fresh insights into the spiritual, social, and imaginative significances of built space. Further, it reveals how engagement with both real and imagined architectural structures has long been a way of understanding the intangible workings of the mind itself.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr Jane Griffiths is an Associate Professor at the University of Oxford, UK, and Placito Fellow and Tutor in English at Wadham College. She has written extensively on English poetry and poets of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Her most recent collection of poetry is Silent in Finisterre (2017).
Dr Adam Hanna is Lecturer in Irish Literature at University College Cork, Ireland. He is the author of Northern Irish Poetry and Domestic Space (2015), as well as of several articles and book chapters on Irish literature.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Architectural Space and the Imagination
Book Subtitle: Houses in Literature and Art from Classical to Contemporary
Editors: Jane Griffiths, Adam Hanna
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36067-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-36066-5Published: 09 October 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-36069-6Published: 09 October 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-36067-2Published: 08 October 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 234
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 16 illustrations in colour
Topics: Literary History, Contemporary Literature, Classical and Antique Literature, Architecture, general