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Ornament as crisis : architecture, design, and modernity in Hermann Broch's The Sleepwalkers /

Ornament as Crisis explores the ways in which the novels of Hermann Broch's Sleepwalkers (Schlafwandler) trilogy participate in and employ the history of architecture, architectural theory, and contemporary architectural debates. Beginning with the visual and architectural experiences of the fi...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: McGaughey, Sarah (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2016.
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Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:Ornament as Crisis explores the ways in which the novels of Hermann Broch's Sleepwalkers (Schlafwandler) trilogy participate in and employ the history of architecture, architectural theory, and contemporary architectural debates. Beginning with the visual and architectural experiences of the figures in each novel, Sarah McGaughey analyzes the role of architecture in the trilogy as a whole, while discussing work by Broch's contemporaries on architecture. She argues that The Sleepwalkers allows us to better understand the ways in which literature responds and contributes to social, theoretical, and spatial concepts of architecture. Ornament as Crisis guides readers through the spaces of Broch's Modernist masterpiece and the architectural debates of his time. --
Physical Description:1 online resource (ix, 219 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780810131880
0810131889