Format:
1 online resource (268 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9789401202817
Series Statement:
Nature, Culture and Literature Series v.2
Content:
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 house'. This latter term is taken in its broadest possible resonance, encompassing everything from the great houses so beloved of nineteenth-century English novelists to the caravans and mobile homes of the latterday travelling community, and all points in between. The essays are written by a combination of established and emerging scholars, working in a variety of scholarly disciplines, including literary criticism, sociology, cultural studies, history, popular music, and architecture. No specific school or theory predominates, although the work of two key figures - Gaston Bachelard and Martin Heidegger - is engaged throughout. This collection engages with a number of key issues raised by the increasingly troubled relationship between the cultural (built) and natural environments in the contemporary world
Note:
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Introduction: Culture and Domestic Space -- Chapter 1: Houses, Habit and Memory -- Chapter 2: 'You understand what domestic architecture ought to be, you do': Finding Home in The Wind in the Willows -- Chapter 3: The Life of a Country Cottage -- Chapter 4: Labouring at Leisure: Aspects of Lifestyle and the Rise of Home Improvement -- Chapter 5: Safe House: Authenticity, Nostalgia and the Irish House -- Chapter 6: 'The house ... has cancer': Representations of Domestic Space in the Poetry of Carol Ann Duffy -- Chapter 7: Building, Dwelling, Moving: Seamus Heaney, Tom Paulin and the Reverse Aesthetic -- Chapter 8: Troubled Places: Domestic Space in Graphic Novels -- Chapter 9: Householders: Community, Violence and Resistance in Three Contemporary Women's Texts -- Chapter 10: Sonic Architecture: Home Hi-fi and Stereo(types) -- Chapter 11: A Life of Longing Behind the Bedroom Door: Adolescent Space and the Makings of Private Identity -- Chapter 12: One Widower's Home: Excavating Some Disturbed Meanings of Domestic Space -- References -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version Smyth, Gerry Our House Boston : BRILL,c2006 ISBN 9789042019690
Language:
English
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