Synopses & Reviews
"Altogether, the work is a delight, offering an unusual, provocative view on the disparate texts, with the added pleasure of lucid graceful prose." --Journal of Modern Literature
Bettina Knapp probes the nature, meaning, and use of the architectural metaphors and archetypes that pervade all literature.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Ibsen: The Master Builder-Emptiness, an Architectural Archetype
2. Maeterlinck: The Intruder and Interior-An Architectural Archetype of Introversion
3. James: "The Jolly Corner"-The Entrapped Shadow in the Archetypal House
4. Ansky: "The Tower of Rome"-An Architectural Archetype of the Self-Made Man
5. Kafka: The Castle-The Archetypal Land Surveyor
6. Lorca: The House of Bernarda Alba-A Hermaphroditic Martriarchate
7. Borges: "The Library of Babel"- The Archetypal Hexagonal Gallery
8. Fuentes: "In a Flemish Garden"-A Parapsychological Happening in an Architectural Construct
9. Wang Shih-Fu: The Romance of the Western Chamber-The Architectonic Archetype
10. Mishima: The Temple of the Golden Pavilion-An Archetypal Feminine Sun and an Archetypal Masculine Moon
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index