Beatrice L. Bridglall

On Exploring Craft

Writers as Architects

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the parallel concepts in Architecture and Literature where writers are the architects of language, designing their narratives brick by brick, and giving care and consideration to each individual word as well as their collective purpose and meaning. Bridglall examines Hass, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Hemingway, amongst many others.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of America
• Seitenzahl: 118
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. November 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 332g
• ISBN-13: 9780761866749
• ISBN-10: 0761866744
• Artikelnr.: 43747651

Autorenporträt

By Beatrice L. Bridglall

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Rochelle Hendricks, Secretary of New Jersey Higher Education
Preface and Organization of the Book Acknowledgments Chapter 1: Writers as
Architects: Exploring Parallel Concepts in Architecture and Literature
Chapter 2: A Meditation on Lines, Direction, Movement and Mass: The Poems
of Marina Tsvetaeva Chapter 3: Light, Color and Space in Select Poems by
Robert Hass Chapter 4: Glimpses of Proportion and Symmetry: F. Scott
Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby Chapter 5: Unraveling Texture in William
Faulkner's Light in August Chapter 6: Toward Plumbing Architectural and
Narrative Space in Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, "Soldier's
Home", and "A Clean Well-Lighted Place" Chapter 7: Tension, Compression and
Pacing in Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita and Pnin Chapter 8: Exploring Pattern
and Rhythm: Alice Munro's "Dulse" and "Labor Day Dinner" Chapter 9:
Appreciating Unity and Harmony in Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day
Chapter 10: The Role of Order and Propriety in William Gass' In the Heart
of the Heart of the Country Chapter 11: Investigating Balance in Gustave
Flaubert's Madame Bovary and The First Sentimental Education References
Index About the Author