ISBN:
9042019697
,
9789042019690
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (268 p)
,
ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2010 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Nature, culture and literature 02
Parallel Title:
Print version Our House : The Representation of Domestic Space in Modern Culture
DDC:
306.4
Keywords:
Architecture, Domestic Psychological aspects
;
Dwellings Psychological aspects
;
Home in literature
;
Home in popular culture
Abstract:
Space has emerged in recent years as a radical category in a range of related disciplines across the humanities. Of the many possible applications of this new interest, some of the most exciting and challenging have addressed the issue of domestic architecture and its function as a space for both the dramatisation and the negotiation of a cluster of highly salient issues concerning, amongst other things, belonging and exclusion, fear and desire, identity and difference. Our House is a cross-disciplinary collection of essays taking as its focus both the prospect and the possibility of 'the hous
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Acknowledgements; Contributors; Introduction: Culture and Domestic Space; 1 Houses, Habit and Memory; 2 'You understand what domestic architecture ought to be, you do': Finding Home in The Wind in the Willows; 3 The Life of a Country Cottage; 4 Labouring at Leisure: Aspects of Lifestyle and the Rise of Home Improvement; 5 Safe House: Authenticity, Nostalgia and the Irish House; 6 'The house … has cancer': Representations of Domestic Space in the Poetry of Carol Ann Duffy; 7 Building, Dwelling, Moving: Seamus Heaney, Tom Paulin and the Reverse Aesthetic
Description / Table of Contents:
8 Troubled Places: Domestic Space in Graphic Novels9 Householders: Community, Violence and Resistance in Three Contemporary Women's Texts; 10 Sonic Architecture: Home Hi-fi and Stereo(types); 11 A Life of Longing Behind the Bedroom Door: Adolescent Space and the Makings of Private Identity; 12 One Widower's Home: Excavating Some Disturbed Meanings of Domestic Space; References; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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