The Grand Hotels (of Joseph Cornell)
Title | The Grand Hotels (of Joseph Cornell) PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Coover |
Publisher | |
Pages | 76 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Hotels |
ISBN |
Coover takes us through the looking-glass of Joseph Cornell's boxes into a world of "Grand Hotels" we never dreamed of. Rooms are accessed via ferris wheel. They open onto crystal cages, night voyages, sand fountains. They lead us back to childhood, to forgotten games, to sleeping princess who do not await a prince and, finally, home, poor heart. Funny and wistful by turns, these brilliant vignettes explore the nature of desire and the melancholy of fulfillment. As the author says, they are also an "architectural portrait of the artist," with biographical information "built into the construction of the text like girders, brickwork or decor."
DOVECOTES, HOTELS AND OTHER WHITE SPACES.
Title | DOVECOTES, HOTELS AND OTHER WHITE SPACES. PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 47 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Grand Hotels
Title | Grand Hotels PDF eBook |
Author | Elaine Denby |
Publisher | Reaktion Books |
Pages | 316 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 9781861891211 |
From its beginnings as the humble inn, the hotel has undergone enormous changes over the centuries. Elaine Denby charts the development of the Grand Hotel and how it has kept pace with technological innovations.
The Grand Hotels (of Joseph Cornell)
Title | The Grand Hotels (of Joseph Cornell) PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Coover |
Publisher | |
Pages | 72 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN |
Coover takes us through the looking-glass of Joseph Cornell's boxes into a world of "Grand Hotels" we never dreamed of. Rooms are accessed via ferris wheel. They open onto crystal cages, night voyages, sand fountains. They lead us back to childhood, to forgotten games, to sleeping princess who do not await a prince and, finally, home, poor heart. Funny and wistful by turns, these brilliant vignettes explore the nature of desire and the melancholy of fulfillment. As the author says, they are also an "architectural portrait of the artist," with biographical information "built into the construction of the text like girders, brickwork or decor."
Surrealism and Architecture
Title | Surrealism and Architecture PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Mical |
Publisher | Psychology Press |
Pages | 378 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 0415325196 |
Twenty-one essays examining the relationship of surrealist thought to architectural theory and practice.
Joseph Cornell
Title | Joseph Cornell PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph Cornell |
Publisher | |
Pages | 47 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Preserving the Spell
Title | Preserving the Spell PDF eBook |
Author | Armando Maggi |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 408 |
Release | 2015-07-21 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 022624301X |
Fairy tales are supposed to be magical, surprising, and exhilarating, an enchanting counterpoint to everyday life that nonetheless helps us understand and deal with the anxieties of that life. Today, however, fairy tales are far from marvelous—in the hands of Hollywood, they have been stripped of their power, offering little but formulaic narratives and tame surprises. If we want to rediscover the power of fairy tales—as Armando Maggi thinks we should—we need to discover a new mythic lens, a new way of approaching and understanding, and thus re-creating, the transformative potential of these stories. In Preserving the Spell, Maggi argues that the first step is to understand the history of the various traditions of oral and written narrative that together created the fairy tales we know today. He begins his exploration with the ur-text of European fairy tales, Giambattista Basile’s The Tale of Tales, then traces its path through later Italian, French, English, and German traditions, with particular emphasis on the Grimm Brothers’ adaptations of the tales, which are included in the first-ever English translation in an appendix. Carrying his story into the twentieth century, Maggi mounts a powerful argument for freeing fairy tales from their bland contemporary forms, and reinvigorating our belief that we still can find new, powerfully transformative ways of telling these stories.