Transcending space
Subtitle: architectural places in works by Henry David Thoreau, E.E. Cummings, and John Barth
By: Taimi Olsen.
Publisher: Associated University Presses
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Lewisburg [Pa.] : Bucknell University Press; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 145
Subjects: Cummings, E. E. 1894-1962 -- Knowledge -- Architecture.; Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 -- Knowledge -- Architecture.; Cummings, E. E. 1894-1962 -- Knowledge -- Architecture.; Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 -- Knowledge -- Architecture.; Barth, John, 1930- -- Knowledge -- Architecture.; Barth, John, 1930- -- Settings.; American literature -- History and criticism.; Architecture in literature.; Space and time in literature.; Architecture and literature.; Setting (Literature)
Description: "This book gathers theoretical propositions about space into a conception of dynamic space - space that is complex, interrelated, transcendent, and multi-centered. The polyvalent quality of space that we desire is anticipated and envisioned by American writers, writing out of a pervasive, transcendentalist mode. Works by three authors - Henry David Theoreau, E. E.

Cummings, and John Barth - serve as case studies for the consideration of the influence and adaptation of a dynamic strain of transcendentalism in American literature. The envisioning of space as dynamic, as changeable, as mobile, challenges common conceptions of built space as static."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 138-142) and index.