Our house : : the representation of domestic space in modern culture / / edited by Gerry Smyth and Jo Croft.
Space has emerged in recent years as a radical category in a range of related disciplines across the humanities. Of the many possible applications of this new interest, some of the most exciting and challenging have addressed the issue of domestic architecture and its function as a space for both th...
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| Superior document: | Nature, culture and literature ; 02 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2006 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Nature, culture and literature ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (269 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- Gerry SMYTH and Jo CROFT: Introduction: Culture and Domestic Space
- 1 Joe MORAN: Houses, Habit and Memory
- 2 Gerry SMYTH: 'You understand what domestic architecture ought to be, you do': Finding Home in The Wind in the Willows
- 3 Karen SAYER: The Life of a Country Cottage
- 4 Ruth MCELROY: Labouring at Leisure: Aspects of Lifestyle and the Rise of Home Improvement
- 5 Shane ALCOBIA-MURPHY: Safe House: Authenticity, Nostalgia and the Irish House
- 6 Mari HUGHES-EDWARDS: 'The house ... has cancer': Representations of Domestic Space in the Poetry of Carol Ann Duffy
- 7 Scott BREWSTER: Building, Dwelling, Moving: Seamus Heaney, Tom Paulin and the Reverse Aesthetic
- 8 Jeff ADAMS: Troubled Places: Domestic Space in Graphic Novels
- 9 Peter CHILDS: Householders: Community, Violence and Resistance in Three Contemporary Women's Texts
- 10 Ron MOY: Sonic Architecture: Home Hi-fi and Stereo(types)
- 11 Jo CROFT: A Life of Longing Behind the Bedroom Door: Adolescent Space and the Makings of Private Identity
- 12 Joseph BOUGHEY: One Widower's Home: Excavating Some Disturbed Meanings of Domestic Space
- References
- Index.