Architecture and Modern Literature

Abstract

Architecture and Modern Literatureexplores the representation and interpretation of architectural space in modern literature from the early nineteenth century to the present, with the aim of showing how literary production and architectural construction are related as cultural forms in the historical context of modernity. In addressing this subject, it also examines the larger questions of the relation between literature and architecture and the extent to which these two arts define one another in the social and philosophical contexts of modernity. Architecture and Modern Literature will serve as a foundational introduction to the emerging interdisciplinary study of architecture and literature. David Spurr addresses a broad range of material, including literary, critical, and philosophical works in English, French, and German, and proposes a new historical and theoretical overview of this area, in which modern forms of "meaning" in architecture and literature are related to the discourses of being, dwelling, and homelessness.

Irrealistic traditions in Russian prose of the first third of the 20th century

“…Не дали ли мне вместо тебя кого-нибудь другого?» 851 . С одной стороны, Юрин поступок изуверство и зверство, а с другой -прозревание обетованного нового неба, о котором с новой силой заговорили В. С. Соловьев, А. Блок, А. Белый, в бездонных очах героини: «О, я ясно вижу твои черты сквозь белые повязки 852 . Ты -такая же, как рань-ше… еще красивее, еще безгрешнее, чем раньше, моя Женя» 853 .…”

“…«Эта оригинальная мифологизация обыденщины, -пишет 851 Пантюхов 1907, 182-183. 852 Напрашивается параллель с декадентской картиной Дж. Уотса 1886 года «Надежда».…”

Hafıza Arakesitinde Yazınsal Mekanın Göstergebilimsel Anlatısı

“…Kentsel/mimari araştırmanın edebiyattan bağımsız olmadığını (Stein, Haldenbay ve Roth, 1990), mimarlık ve edebiyat arasındaki karşılıklı araçsal ilişkinin analiz ve çözümleme aşamasında kurulmasının faydalı olduğunu savunan görüşler (Havik, 2006;Spurr, 2012), edebi kurguyla mekânın bağlamsal ilişkilerine odaklanmaktadır. İnsanlar ve çevreleri arasındaki ilişki, edebi betimlemelerin ayrıntısında gizlidir.…”

The invisible dome and the unbuilt bridge: Contemporary fiction and the mythologies of Ottoman architecture

“…In his study of the embeddedness of modern literature in architectural forms, David Spurr (2012) writes thatArchitectural forms of the past are more conducive to narrative form, partly because of the richness of their symbolic associations and partly because each of these forms, as well as each concrete instance of it, has a history of its own. The building mediates between the present and the past, and this mediation itself serves as a kind of larger narrative.…”