{"product_id":"corridor-kate-marshall-9780816679287","title":"Corridor: Media Architectures in American Fiction","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCorridor\u003c\/i\u003e offers a series of conceptually provocative readings that illuminate a hidden and surprising relationship between architectural space and modern American fiction. By paying close attention to fictional descriptions of some of modernity's least remarkable structures, such as plumbing, ductwork, and airshafts, Kate Marshall discovers a rich network of connections between corridors and novels, one that also sheds new light on the nature of modern media.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe corridor is the dominant organizational structure in modern architecture, yet its various functions are taken for granted, and it tends to disappear from view. But, as Marshall shows, even the most banal structures become strangely visible in the noisy communication systems of American fiction. By examining the link between modernist novels and corridors, Marshall demonstrates the ways architectural elements act as media. In a fresh look at the late naturalist fiction of the 1920s, '30s, and '40s, she leads the reader through the fetus-clogged sewers of \u003ci\u003eManhattan Transfer\u003c\/i\u003e to the corpse-choked furnaces of \u003ci\u003eNative Son\u003c\/i\u003e and reveals how these invisible spaces have a fascinating history in organizing the structure of modern persons. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePortraying media as not only objects but processes, Marshall develops a new idiom for Americanist literary criticism, one that explains how media studies can inform our understanding of modernist literature. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kate Marshall\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0816679282\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780816679287\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/14\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2014","brand":"Kate Marshall","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48086950772991,"sku":"9780816679287","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8d541083-5ee4-4c4b-85c3-888508d45d17.jpg?v=1769097435","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/corridor-kate-marshall-9780816679287","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}