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Our house : the representation of domestic space in modern culture /

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 th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Smyth, Gerry, 1961-, Croft, Jo
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2006.
Colección:Nature, culture and literature ; 02.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Culture and domestic space / Gerry Smyth and Jo Croft
  • Houses, habit and memory / Joe Moran
  • 'You understand what domestic architecture ought to be, you do' : finding home in The wind in the willows / Gerry Smyth
  • The life of a country cottage / Karen Sayer
  • Labouring at leisure : aspects of lifestyle and the rise of home improvement / Ruth McElroy
  • Safe house : authenticity, nostalgia and the Irish house / Shane Alcobia-Murphy
  • 'The house ... has cancer' : representations of domestic space in the poetry of Carol Ann Duffy / Mari Hughes-Edwards
  • Building, dwelling, moving : Seamus Heaney, Tom Paulin and the reverse aesthetic / Scott Brewster
  • Troubled places : domestic space in graphic novels / Jeff Adams
  • Householders : community, violence and resistance in three contemporary women's texts / Peter Childs
  • Sonic architecture : home hi-fi and stereo(types) / Ron Moy
  • A life of longing behind the bedroom door : adolescent space and the makings of private identity / Jo Croft
  • One widower's home : excavating some disturbed meanings of domestic space / Joseph Boughey.