The Imagery of Interior Spaces / Dominique Bauer ; [edited by] Dominique Bauer, Michael J. Kelly.

• Author: Bauer, Dominique.
• HerausgeberIn: Kelly, Michael J.
• Sonstige: Bauer, Dominique; Kelly, Michael J.
• Place / Publishing House: Santa Barbara, CA : : Punctum Books,, 2019.; ©2019.
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Edition: 1st edition.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (241 pages) :; illustrations; PDF, digital file(s).

On the unstable boundaries between “interior” and “exterior,” “private” and “public,” and always in some way relating to a “beyond,” the imagery of interior space in literature reveals itself as an often disruptive code of subjectivity and of modernity. The wide variety of interior spaces elicited in literature — from the odd room over the womb, secluded parks, and train compartments, to the city as a world under a cloth — reveal a common defining feature: these interiors can all be analyzed as codes of a paradoxical, both assertive and fragile, subjectivity in its own unique time and history. They function as subtexts that define subjectivity, time, and history as profoundly ambiguous realities, on interchangeable existential, socio-political, and epistemological levels. This volume addresses the imagery of interior spaces in a number of iconic and also lesser known yet significant authors of European, North American, and Latin American literature of the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries: Djuna Barnes, Edmond de Goncourt, William Faulkner, Gabriel García Márquez, Benito Pérez Galdós, Elsa Morante, Robert Musil, Jules Romains, Peter Waterhouse, and Émile Zola.