Kafka's Architectures: Doors, Rooms, Stairs and Windows of an Intricate Literary Edifice

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McFarland, 2. sij 2015. - Broj stranica: 244

Adopting Kafka as a lens to examine modern concepts in architecture, this book pries open new interpretations in Kafka scholarship. Each of eight chapters takes up an architectural element with which to explore meanings central to both literature and architecture.

Stairs function as vertical access but in Kafka's hands become an instrument of science, testing the merit of natural selection. Kafka's doors open and close less to allow passage than to reconcile one psychological interior with the next. Notions of plumbing and hygiene begin to acquire new meaning.

The architecture of Mies van der Rohe begins to make more sense, especially his tabula rasa approach to design, signifying less a harsh disdain for site and more a response to a reality in which the ceremony of the stairs had died and was replaced by the pervasive flatness of the modern floor.

 

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Preface
1
Introduction
3
1 Windows
15
2 Restless Doors
41
3 Up and Down Stairs
70
4 Rooms and the Question of Return
103
5 The Home as an Agent of Shock
139
A Demonstration of Machine Power and Labor Relations
168
In the Penal Colony
180
8 By Way of a Conclusion
203
Chapter Notes
215
Bibliography
225
Index
231
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Ayad B. Rahmani
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O autoru (2015)

Ayad B. Rahmani is a professor of architecture at Washington State University. He has written widely on the subjects of art, architecture and urban design. He lives in Pullman, Washington.

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NaslovKafka's Architectures: Doors, Rooms, Stairs and Windows of an Intricate Literary Edifice
AutorAyad B. Rahmani
Izdanjeilustrirano
IzdavačMcFarland, 2015
ISBN0786476532, 9780786476534
DuljinaBroj stranica: 244
  
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