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Literary Writing as a Mode of Topoanalysis

Between the Lines

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Literary Writing as a Mode of Topoanalysis

Between the Lines

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Offers an investigation into the use of literary language for its potential to dwell on the ambiguities and complexities of architectural experience.

At the edge of academic research, where impressions can be verbalized in language, where the experience of architecture meets the capacity to reflect on it in conceptual terms, literary writing appears as a practice able to transfer experience into communicable knowledge. This book uses literary language to investigate the affective relationships that people establish with places. Further developing Gaston Bachelard's notion of “topoanalysis” as “the study of the sites of our intimate lives,” Klaske Havik develops a conceptual exploration about place, discussing its situated, social, experiential, and temporal dimensions. These theoretical discussions are complemented by essays that operate on the boundaries of academic and literary language to express specificities of places.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Lines to Place
1. Toward: Horizons
2. Between the Lines: Tallinn, Estonia
3. With: Trajectories
4. Through: Choreographies
5. While: Timelines
6. Before: Traces
Bibliography

Product details

Bloomsbury Academic Test
Published Feb 04 2027
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Pages 240
ISBN 9781666977721
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Dimensions 9 x 6 inches
Series Toposophia: Thinking Place/Making Space
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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