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Ornament as crisis [electronic resource] :architecture, design, and modernity in Hermann Broch's The sleepwalkers / Sarah McGaughey.

By: McGaughey, Sarah [author.].
Contributor(s): Project Muse [distributor.] | Project Muse.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2016 2015); Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2016. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (1 PDF (ix, 219 pages)).Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780810131880; 0810131889.Subject(s): Broch, Hermann, 1886-1951 -- Criticism and interpretation | Broch, Hermann, 1886-1951. Schlafwandler | Modernism (Literature) -- Germany | Architecture in literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books. | Electronic books. DDC classification: 833/.912 Online resources: Full text available:
Contents:
Searching for the spatial representation of modern experience in 1888 : Pasenow oder die Romantik -- Early twentieth-century architecture and visual experience in 1903 : Esch oder die Anarchie -- The social function of architecture : architectural experience in 1918 : Huguenau oder die Sachlichkeit -- Structural engineering and the architectonics of The sleepwalkers.
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.
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Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-206) and index.

Searching for the spatial representation of modern experience in 1888 : Pasenow oder die Romantik -- Early twentieth-century architecture and visual experience in 1903 : Esch oder die Anarchie -- The social function of architecture : architectural experience in 1918 : Huguenau oder die Sachlichkeit -- Structural engineering and the architectonics of 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 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.

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