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Ornament as Crisis: Architecture, Design, and Modernity in Hermann Broch's the Sleepwalkers
Contributor(s): McGaughey, Sarah (Author)
ISBN: 0810131897     ISBN-13: 9780810131897
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
OUR PRICE:   $33.20  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: February 2016
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | European - German
Dewey: 833.912
LCCN: 2015024091
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (0.70 lbs) 232 pages
 
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Ornament as Crisis explores the ways in which the novels of Hermann Broch's Sleepwalkers (Schlafwandler) trilogy participate in and employ the history of architecture and architectural theory.

Beginning with the visual and architectural experiences of the figures in each novel, Sarah McGaughey analyzes the role of architecture in the trilogy as a whole, while discussing work by Broch's contemporaries on architecture. She argues that The Sleepwalkers allows us to better understand how literature responds and contributes to social, theoretical, and spatial concepts of architecture. Ornament as Crisis guides readers through the spaces of Broch's mdernist masterpiece and the architectural debates of his time.