Title: Transcending space
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.
Subjects: American literature, Architecture, Architecture and literature, Architecture in literature, History and criticism, Knowledge, Setting (Literature), Settings, Space and time in literature, Cummings, e. e. (edward estlin), 1894-1962, Thoreau, henry david, 1817-1862, Barth, john, 1930-, Space and time, American literature, history and criticism, Knowledge and learning
People: E. E. Cummings (1894-1962), Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), John Barth (1930-)