ABSTRACT
This Companion breaks new ground in our knowledge and understanding of the diverse relationships between literature, architecture, and the city, which together form a field of interdisciplinary research that is one of the most innovative and exciting to have emerged in recent years.
Bringing together a wide variety of contributors, not only writers, architectural and literary scholars, and social scientists, but graphic novelists and artists, the book offers contemporary essays on everything from science fiction and the crime novel, to poetry, comics and oral history. It is structured into two sections: History, Narrative and Genre, and Strategy, Language and Form. Including over ninety illustrations, the book is a must read for academics and students.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
section I|2 pages
History, Narrative and Genre
chapter 1|16 pages
Taking the measure of the incommensurable
chapter 3|21 pages
Domestic digressions
chapter 6|8 pages
An unliteral construct: the architecture of Graham Greene’s ‘The Destructors’
chapter 7|16 pages
“Cityful passing away, other cityful coming, passing away too…”
chapter 10|25 pages
The cold war finds a common home
section II|3 pages
Strategy, Language and Form
