1st Edition
The Routledge Companion on Architecture, Literature and The City
This Companion breaks new ground in our knowledge and understanding of the diverse relationships between literature, architecture, and the city, which together form a field of interdisciplinary research that is one of the most innovative and exciting to have emerged in recent years.
Bringing together a wide variety of contributors, not only writers, architectural and literary scholars, and social scientists, but graphic novelists and artists, the book offers contemporary essays on everything from science fiction and the crime novel, to poetry, comics and oral history. It is structured into two sections: History, Narrative and Genre, and Strategy, Language and Form. Including over ninety illustrations, the book is a must read for academics and students.
PREFACE
Jonathan Charley
FOREWORD
David Spurr
INTRODUCTION
Constructing Narratives and Narrative Construction
Jonathan Charley
SECTION I History, Narrative and Genre
- TAKING THE MEASURE OF THE INCOMMENSURABLE:
- MODERNITY AS AMBIGUITY
- DOMESTIC DIGRESSIONS
- PLOTS OF LAND
- INEQUALITY IN ALUÍSIO AZEVEDO’S O CORTIÇO
- AN UNLITERAL CONSTRUCT:
- "CITYFUL PASSING AWAY, OTHER CITYFUL COMING, PASSING AWAY TOO…"
- WRITTEN CITIES:
- THE ARCHITECTURE OF YI SANG’S NALGAE
- THE COLD WAR FINDS A COMMON HOME
- LITERARY LANGUAGE AND ARCHITECTURAL MEANING:
- FALSE LANDSCAPE SYNDROME
- THE CITY IN THE BRAZILIAN NOVEL
- MAGIC MIRRORS:
- VOLVER A NO SABER
Poetry, Architecture and the Beginnings of Open City - WRITING ATMOSPHERES.
- THE LABORATORY OF LITERARY ARCHITECTURE
- GLASGOW’S ITALIAN CENTRES:
Narrative, Identity, Regeneration - `STOP LEANING AGAINST THE WALL – IT’S WET!’
- COMICS AND ARCHITECTURE:
- FIGURING SPEECH:
Architectural Representation of the Improbable
Louise Pelletier
In Vikram Chandra’s Sacred Games
Shari Daya
Interrogating Singaporean public housing through its literary forms
Lillian Chee
Urban Regeneration in Contemporary British Procedural Novels
Peter Clandfield
Ana Baltazar
The Architecture Of Graham Greene’s ‘The Destructors’
A Sedimentary Lesson In Post-War Social Change.
Johnny Rodgers
Dublin, Mexico City, Tokyo
Angeliki Sioli
Utopian Fiction, Spatial Ordering, And Absurdity
Malcolm Miles
Yoonchun Jung
The Intertwined Worlds of Philip K Dick and the Strugatsky Brothers
Jonathan Charley
SECTION II Strategy, Language and Form
Mood in Alain Robbe-Grillet’s House of Jealousy
Alberto Perez Gomez
The Poetry and Propaganda of Andrew Jordan
Owen Hatherley_
Posthumous Memoirs And Other Writings
Csaba Deak
Reconstructing Lost Interiors from Instructional and Constructional Writing
Ed Hollis
Kristen Kreider & James O’Leary
Literary Methods to Investigate the Thresholds of Atmospheres
Klaske Havik
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
Sarah Edwards
Writing on the Wall and Urban Space
Inga Bryden
A Reading Guide
Koldo Lus Arana
Before And After Writing
Jane Rendell
Biography
Jonathan Charley is currently Director of Cultural Studies at the Department of Architecture at the University of Strathclyde, UK.
