The Imagery of Interior Spaces (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781950192199)

On the unstable boundaries between "interior" and "exterior," "private" and "public," and always in some way relating to a "beyond," the imagery of interior space in literature reveals itself as an often disruptive code of subjectivity and of modernity. The wide variety of interior spaces elicited in literature -- from the odd room over the womb, secluded parks, and train compartments, to the city as a world under a cloth -- reveal a common defining feature: these interiors can all be analyzed as codes of a paradoxical, both assertive and fragile, subjectivity in its own unique time and history. They function as subtexts that define subjectivity, time, and history as profoundly ambiguous realities, on interchangeable existential, socio-political, and epistemological levels.

This volume addresses the imagery of interior spaces in a number of iconic and also lesser known yet significant authors of European, North American, and Latin American literature of the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries: Djuna Barnes, Edmond de Goncourt, William Faulkner, Gabriel Garc a M rquez, Benito P rez Gald s, Elsa Morante, Robert Musil, Jules Romains, Peter Waterhouse, and mile Zola.

Author: Michael J. Kelly, Dominique Bauer
ISBN-10: 1950192199
ISBN-13: 9781950192199
Publisher: Punctum Books
Language: English
Published: 03/28/2019
Pages: 244
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.51d