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Space as Storyteller: Spatial Jumps in Architecture, Critical Theory, and Literature by Laura Chiesa (review)

Space as Storyteller: Spatial Jumps in Architecture, Critical Theory, and Literature by Laura... present; Red White and Blue (1987) is a political parody; Valley of Roses (2003) is a fictional memoir of a young boy who, like his author, grew up in Bulgaria during the Second World War. Both scholar and fiction writer, Stoltzfus also shares the New Novelists’ tendency to theorize and explain their novels in a proliferation of epigraphs and prefr aces, self-­ eviews, and other critical apparatus both within and separate from the novels. In addition to conversations between Romoland’s fictional characters, then, one can thus also enjoy the dialogue between the professor and the novelist. Romoland will appeal to scholars and fans of experimental fiction and to those interested in the relations between images and texts and between fiction and critical reflection on the nature and purposes of the arts. Lynn A. Higgins  Dartmouth College Laura Chiesa, Space as Storyteller: Spatial Jumps in Architecture, Critical Theory, and Literature Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2016, xii, 250 pp. Much traditional architecture aspires to a unitary narrative of power, what historian Spiro Kostof terms “the Grand Manner”: There the city is conceived as a work of art, a theater for staging spectacles or composing a space that makes http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Comparatist University of North Carolina Press

Space as Storyteller: Spatial Jumps in Architecture, Critical Theory, and Literature by Laura Chiesa (review)

Cooksey, Thomas L.
The Comparatist , Volume 41 – Nov 1, 2017
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present; Red White and Blue (1987) is a political parody; Valley of Roses (2003) is a fictional memoir of a young boy who, like his author, grew up in Bulgaria during the Second World War. Both scholar and fiction writer, Stoltzfus also shares the New Novelists’ tendency to theorize and explain their novels in a proliferation of epigraphs and prefr aces, self-­ eviews, and other critical apparatus both within and separate from the novels. In addition to conversations between Romoland’s fictional characters, then, one can thus also enjoy the dialogue between the professor and the novelist. Romoland will appeal to scholars and fans of experimental fiction and to those interested in the relations between images and texts and between fiction and critical reflection on the nature and purposes of the arts. Lynn A. Higgins  Dartmouth College Laura Chiesa, Space as Storyteller: Spatial Jumps in Architecture, Critical Theory, and Literature Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2016, xii, 250 pp. Much traditional architecture aspires to a unitary narrative of power, what historian Spiro Kostof terms “the Grand Manner”: There the city is conceived as a work of art, a theater for staging spectacles or composing a space that makes

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