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Writing | Architecture
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55
June
2019
17406051
2019
periodical issue
'Mari Lending puts it elegantly: ‘Architecture, space, and place are inexorable foundations in literature: thematically, compositionally, structurally, associatively, and metaphorically’ (95). ‘Inexorable’ is crucial here. Writing has more than a casual or occasional relationship to architecture. Along with its corollaries, space and place, architecture is foundational to literature, including to the composition of literature (the craft and pedagogy of writing). At the same time, by elaborating upon the human experience of inhabitation, literature and writing accentuate the phenomenological dimensions of architecture, space and place. Under the influence of literature and writing, even the least assuming of buildings (of spaces, of places) are imbued with the richness and potential of architectural associations. All the same, there is no architecture, space or place, without stories always already in play. However one thinks about it, the human element is crucial in writing and architecture.' (Eleni Bastéa and Patrick West, Introduction)
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Subjects:
- Grif : A Story of Colonial Life 1866 single work novel
- The Mystery of a Hansom Cab 1886 single work novel
- Melbourne, Victoria,
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