Reading the House: A Literary Perspective

Mezei, Kathy; Briganti, Chiara

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“…Most Haunted picks up the ways the Hall already represents the supernatural, offering viewers a Gothic sensibility through familiar signs. As Kathy Mezei and Chiara Briganti explain of domestic space, “the exterior façade and style along with the interior decoration, furniture, style and layout of the house compose a semiotic system.” These signs serve as cultural markers of class and status for viewers to read. But signs are not confined to the cultural text under consideration: The act of reading a book, for example, engages a system of paratextual signs: “its layout and style, its use of symbols, and its exterior façade—book cover, design, and blurbs” (840).…”

Section: From Cellar To Garrett: Staging the Ordsall Hall's White Ladymentioning

confidence: 99%

“Do the Ghosts Roam Along the Corridors Here at Ordsall Hall?”: Paranormal Media, Haunted Heritage, and Investing Historical Capital

Edwards¹

2019

The J of Popular Culture

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Section: From Cellar To Garrett: Staging the Ordsall Hall's White Ladymentioning

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“Do the Ghosts Roam Along the Corridors Here at Ordsall Hall?”: Paranormal Media, Haunted Heritage, and Investing Historical Capital

Edwards¹

2019

The J of Popular Culture

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“…Akiko Busch observes, architecture and literature have considerable correlation between exhibiting words and spaces that "both are ways of finding those arrangements with which we can live". (Mezei & Briganti, 2002)(2)…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Literary Architecture

Gehlot

Mishra

Trivedi

2018

Int. J. Res. Granthaalayah

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Architecture and Literature are the social forms of art peculiar to the mankind. Architecture creates a story with a thread of spaces whereas Literature builds a visual representation of a place with words. They have been practiced together from ancient times in order to leverage the experience of users in their respective fields. The primary purpose of the research is to study the amalgamation of these domains of art in order to enhance the prospects of designing in a better-experienced way. Architects and Writers work on the same base with an alike goal and, Architectural concepts could be kindled and inspired by anything in the world henceforth, it could be stimulated by novels and narrations of literature. Thus, the result and conclusion would be exploring an exercise and posing an example of the novel The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand, manifested by the literature review and case studies, henceforth triggering the thoughts of future evolution and enhancement of practice on the topic

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“…Of course, these writers were far from the first to give foundational importance to the house. A history of the American novel, Chandler (1992) observes, is simultaneously a history of house-building and homemaking, while Mezei and Briganti (2002) argue that the rise of the home as a private domestic sphere coincided with the evolution of the novel form. Thus, if the Edwardian novel was distinguished by its homecoming, what was distinguishable about this?…”

Section: Writing Home In the Edwardian Periodmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In this they exhibited a similarity to French naturalist writers like Honoré de Balzac and J.-K. Huysmans who were using interior design and detail to explore ideas of ontological being (Fuss 2004). Thus, a detailed attention to interior designs, layouts, and domestic practices was not a straightforward representational strategy, but rather, as Mezei and VIOLATING THE DOMESTIC Briganti (2002) argue, a way for authors to access and explore the interiority of mind and nation. The home, that seemingly stable and secure dwelling space, became a means for examining society's most intimate thoughts and private relationships.…”

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Violating the Domestic

Saunders

2014

Home Cultures

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This article explores the writing of home within John Galsworthy's (1867-1933) novel The Man of Property. The novel appeared in 1906 and was heralded by The Times Literary Supplement as a new kind of novel that wrote the world in a new and challenging way. Today, however, Galsworthy is rarely seen as an original or inventive writer and is more frequently considered to follow in the tradition of Victorian realism. Yet in The Man of Property there is evidence of stylistic and formal developments that differentiate Galsworthy from Victorian realism. It is a novel that focuses on the homes and home life of Soames and Irene Forsyte, but theirs is not an idealized or sentimentalized relationship; rather, it is one that is expressed through marital rape, megalomania, and the threat of AnghArAD SAunDerS IS A SenIOr lecturer In humAn geOgrAphy At the unIverSIty Of SOuth WAleS. her reSeArch IntereStS revOlve ArOunD the lIterAry AnD culturAl geOgrAphy Of the lAte nIneteenth tO the eArly tWentIeth centurIeS. Downloaded by [UNSW Library] at 05:23 14 August 2015 HOME CULTURES 220 ANGHARAD SAUNDERS > divorce. Taking these themes as a starting point, this article explores how The Man of Property writes home, as both idea and space, in new ways that differentiate it from Victorian realism.

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Reading the House: A Literary Perspective

Cited by 14 publications

References 7 publications

“Do the Ghosts Roam Along the Corridors Here at Ordsall Hall?”: Paranormal Media, Haunted Heritage, and Investing Historical Capital

“Do the Ghosts Roam Along the Corridors Here at Ordsall Hall?”: Paranormal Media, Haunted Heritage, and Investing Historical Capital

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