John Shannon Hendrix;Lorens Eyan Holm;John Shannon Hendrix;Lorens Eyan Holm
There are a number of recent texts that draw on psychoanalytic theory as an interpreta...
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2016
There are a number of recent texts that draw on psychoanalytic theory as an interpretative approach for understanding architecture , or that use the formal and social logics of architecture for understanding the psyche. But there remains work to be done in bringing what largely amounts to a series of independent voices, into a discourse that is greater than the sum of its parts, in the way that, say, the architect Peter Eisenman was able to do with the architecture of deconstruction or that the historian Manfredo Tafuri was able to do with the Marxist critique of architecture . The discourse of the present volume focuses specifically for the first time on the subject of the unconscious in relation to the design, perception, and understanding of architecture . It brings together an international group of contributors, who provide informed and varied points of view on the role of the unconscious in architectural design and theory and, in doing so, expand architectural theory to unexplored areas, enriching architecture in relation to the humanities. The book explores how architecture engages dreams, desires, imagination, memory, and emotions, how architecture can appeal to a broader scope of human experience and identity. Beginning by examining the historical development of the engagement of the unconscious in architectural discourse, and the current and historical, theoretical and practical, intersections of architecture and psychoanalysis, the volume also analyses the city and the urban condition.
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Critical Survey of World Literature, Third Edition
Robert C. Evans;Robert C. Evans
A unique combination of biography and critical analysis, covering major writers from o...
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Critical Survey of World Literature, Third Edition
2017
A unique combination of biography and critical analysis, covering major writers from outside the United States and their significant works in fiction, drama, poetry, and nonfiction.
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Authors--Biography--Dictionaries - Literature--Bio-bibliography - Literature--History and criticism - Literature--Stories, plots, etcContent provider:
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Upstate Cauldron : Eccentric Spiritual Movements in Early New York State
Joscelyn Godwin;Joscelyn Godwin
Bronze Medalist, 2016 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the US Northeast -Best Regi...
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Upstate Cauldron : Eccentric Spiritual Movements in Early New York State
2015
Bronze Medalist, 2016 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the US Northeast -Best Regional Non-Fiction CategoryHonorable Mention, 2015 Foreword Reviews INDIEFAB Book of the Year Awards in the Religion CategoryFrom 1776 to 1914, an amazing collection of prophets, mediums, sects, cults, utopian communities, and spiritual leaders arose in Upstate New York. Along with the best known of these, such as the Shakers, Mormons, and Spiritualists, this book explores more than forty other spiritual leaders or groups, some of them virtually unknown, but all of them fascinating. The author uncovers common threads that characterize these homegrown spiritualities, including roots in Western esoteric traditions, liberation from the psychological pressures of dogmatic Christianity, a preoccupation with sex, and involvement in the radical reform movements of the day. In addition to maps and photographs of surviving buildings and monuments, the book also features a gazetteer of sites listing 150 locations connected to these groups, which may be used as a helpful travel guide to the region.
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Public Library Core Collection : Nonfiction. A Selection Guide to Reference Books and Adult Nonfiction
Toth, Gabriela;Spires, Kendal;Wyatt, Neal;Toth, Gabriela;Spires, Kendal;Wya...
Wilson's Public Library Core Collection: Nonfiction (15th Edition, 2015) recommends re...
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Public Library Core Collection : Nonfiction. A Selection Guide to Reference Books and Adult Nonfiction
2015
Wilson's Public Library Core Collection: Nonfiction (15th Edition, 2015) recommends reference and non-fiction books for the general adult audience. It is a guide to over 9,000, plus review sources and other professional aids for librarians and media specialists.
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Malathouni, Christina
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Journal of Architecture; Aug2013, Vol. 18 Issue 4, p553-569, 17p
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‘Space’ has held a central position within the architectural discourse throughout the ...
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Journal of Architecture; Aug2013, Vol. 18 Issue 4, p553-569, 17p
‘Space’ has held a central position within the architectural discourse throughout the twentieth century and a number of twenty-first-century publications suggest interest in this notion is not to be diminished any time soon. Seen from our contemporary perspective, the association between architecture and space could therefore seem ordinary and self-evident. However, existing scholarship has dated the adoption of the term ‘space’ in architectural vocabulary—as a fundamental category of architecture —no earlier than the 1890s. This early phase has been strongly associated with the German language and nineteenth-century German aesthetic philosophy, whereas, by contrast, the adoption of the term in architectural discourse in the English language is considered to have followed several decades later. This paper discusses the largely unknown case of the American Claude Fayette Bragdon (1866 –1946 ), an English-speaking architect who adopted the notion of ‘space’ as early as the 1890s: concurrently with his German contemporaries. Through analysis of existing scholarship, archival material and Bragdon's published writings mainly up to the appearance of his bookThe Beautiful Necessityin 1910, it throws light on the main sources of Bragdon's ‘spatial’ concept of architecture and demonstrates connections to transcendental aesthetics and ground-breaking advances in nineteenth-century mathematics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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BRAGDON, Claude Fayette - SPACE (Architecture) - ARCHITECTS - ARCHITECTURAL design - AESTHETICS - GERMAN aestheticsContent provider:
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The Wrong World : Selected Stories and Essays of Bertram Brooker
Bertram Brooker;Gregory Betts;Bertram Brooker;Gregory Betts
Bertram Brooker won the country's first Governor General's Award for literature in 193...
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The Wrong World : Selected Stories and Essays of Bertram Brooker
2009
Bertram Brooker won the country's first Governor General's Award for literature in 1936 for his novel Think of the Earth, and his explosive, experimental paintings hang in every major gallery in the country. He was Canada's first multidisciplinary avantgardist, successfully experimenting in literature, visual arts, film, and theatre. Brooker brought all of his experimental ambitions to his short fiction and prose. The Wrong World presents a rich sampling of his prose work, much of it previously unpublished, which adds new insight into his aesthetic ambitions. Working during an incredible period of transition in Canadian society, Brooker's stories document Canada's evolution from a provincial colony into a modern, urban country. His essays participated in that evolution by advocating a passionate awakening of the arts, the end of prudish sentiment and censorship, and a radical rethinking of the nature of war. They capture the limitations and hypocrisies of the Canadian social contract and argue for a more just and spiritual society. His stories humanize his social vision by dramatizing the psychological and emotional cost of Canada's transition into a modern civilization. In turn devastating, penetrating and poignant, Brooker's prose works offer a sharply focussed window into the turbulent interwar years in Canada.
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Magill’s Survey of World Literature
Steven G. Kellman;Steven G. Kellman
Offers profiles of major writers outside the United States from all time periods, acco...
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Magill’s Survey of World Literature
2009
Offers profiles of major writers outside the United States from all time periods, accompanied by analysis of their significant titles of fiction, drama, poetry, and nonfiction.
