Reading buildings: The Textual Turn of Architecture as a Parallel to the Spatial Turn in Literary Studies

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=3qLwjpZB9b" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=3qLwjpZB9b</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/aa-2022-0006" target="_blank" >10.2478/aa-2022-0006</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Reading buildings: The Textual Turn of Architecture as a Parallel to the Spatial Turn in Literary Studies

Original language description

This article seeks to explore the parallels between the spatial turn embraced by contemporary literary theory and the so-called textual turn in architecture. More specifically, links between the contemporary developments of architectural theory and practice and literary criticism are established. In order to highlight the nature and origin of the connection between these two contemporary tendencies, this paper draws on a number of authoritative texts of both literary criticism as well as architectural theory, predominantly within the Anglo-American context.Architecture is presented from the viewpoint of the 20th and 21st-centuries, which accentuates its liberation from its purely formal understanding by emphasising the human involvement in its interpretation. The conception and structuring of physical spaces are therefore regarded as conditioned by processes similar to those involved in the construction of meaning in language and literature. Thus, while literary studies benefit from the extension of their field of study through the inclusion (and contemporary primacy) of the spatial point of view, architectural criticism invites active participation in the construction of its meaning, in other words, its reading. The processes of mutual influencing and enrichment of both the textual turn in architecture and the spatial turn in literary studies is exemplified by means of contemporary architectural works that embody the synergic relationship of the two traditionally separate fields - (literary) text and architecture.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60401 - Arts, Art history

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA20-24867S" target="_blank" >GA20-24867S: Representations of Space in the Novels of Jim Crace and Simon Mawer</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Ars Aeterna [online]

ISSN

2450-8497

e-ISSN

2450-8497

Volume of the periodical

2022

Issue of the periodical within the volume

14

Country of publishing house

PL - POLAND

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

58-70

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85134490722