Architecture and Modern Literature / / David A. Spurr |
Autore | Spurr David <1949-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Ann Arbor : , : University of Michigan Press, , 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (300 p.) |
Disciplina | 809/.93357 |
Soggetto topico |
Architecture and literature
Space perception in literature |
ISBN |
1-280-48682-1
9786613582058 0-472-02824-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | An end to dwelling: architectural and literary modernisms -- Demonic spaces: Sade, Dickens, Kafka -- Allegories of the gothic in the long nineteenth century -- Figures of ruin and restoration: Ruskin and Viollet-le-duc -- Proust's interior Venice -- Monumental displacement in Ulysses -- Architecture in Frost and Stevens -- Annals of junkspace: architectural disaffection in contemporary literature. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910166659703321 |
Spurr David <1949-> | ||
Ann Arbor : , : University of Michigan Press, , 2012 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The rhetoric of empire : colonial discourse in journalism, travel writing, and imperial administration / / David Spurr |
Autore | Spurr David <1949-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Durham : , : Duke University Press, , 1993 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (224 p.) |
Disciplina | 809/.93358 |
Collana | Post-contemporary interventions |
Soggetto topico |
English prose literature - History and criticism
American prose literature - History and criticism French prose literature - History and criticism Travel writing - History Imperialism in literature Colonies in literature Discourse analysis Rhetoric |
ISBN | 0-8223-9864-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Surveillance: Under Western Eyes -- 2 Appropriation: Inheriting the Earth -- 3 Aestheticization: Savage Beauties -- 4 Classification: The Order of Nations -- 5 Debasement: Filth and Defilement -- 6 Negation: Areas of Darkness -- 7 Affirmation: The White Man's Burden -- 8 Idealization: Strangers in Paradise -- 9 Insubstantialization: Seeing as in a Dream -- 10 Naturalization: The Wilderness in Human Form -- 11 Eroticization: The Harems of the West -- 12 Resistance: Notes Toward an Opening -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910791033003321 |
Spurr David <1949-> | ||
Durham : , : Duke University Press, , 1993 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
|
The rhetoric of empire : colonial discourse in journalism, travel writing, and imperial administration / / David Spurr |
Autore | Spurr David <1949-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Durham : , : Duke University Press, , 1993 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (224 p.) |
Disciplina |
809/.93358
809.93358 |
Collana | Post-contemporary interventions |
Soggetto topico |
English prose literature - History and criticism
American prose literature - History and criticism French prose literature - History and criticism Travel writing - History Imperialism in literature Colonies in literature Discourse analysis Rhetoric |
ISBN | 0-8223-9864-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Surveillance: Under Western Eyes -- 2 Appropriation: Inheriting the Earth -- 3 Aestheticization: Savage Beauties -- 4 Classification: The Order of Nations -- 5 Debasement: Filth and Defilement -- 6 Negation: Areas of Darkness -- 7 Affirmation: The White Man's Burden -- 8 Idealization: Strangers in Paradise -- 9 Insubstantialization: Seeing as in a Dream -- 10 Naturalization: The Wilderness in Human Form -- 11 Eroticization: The Harems of the West -- 12 Resistance: Notes Toward an Opening -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910810558703321 |
Spurr David <1949-> | ||
Durham : , : Duke University Press, , 1993 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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