The Poetics Of Space

Author : Gaston Bachelard
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780698170438

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The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard Pdf

A beloved multidisciplinary treatise comes to Penguin Classics Since its initial publication in 1958, The Poetics of Space has been a muse to philosophers, architects, writers, psychologists, critics, and readers alike. The rare work of irresistibly inviting philosophy, Bachelard’s seminal work brims with quiet revelations and stirring, mysterious imagery. This lyrical journey takes as its premise the emergence of the poetic image and finds an ideal metaphor in the intimate spaces of our homes. Guiding us through a stream of meditations on poetry, art, and the blooming of consciousness itself, Bachelard examines the domestic places that shape and hold our dreams and memories. Houses and rooms; cellars and attics; drawers, chests, and wardrobes; nests and shells; nooks and corners: No space is too vast or too small to be filled by our thoughts and our reveries. In Bachelard’s enchanting spaces, “We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.” This new edition features a foreword by Mark Z. Danielewski, whose bestselling novel House of Leaves drew inspiration from Bachelard’s writings, and an introduction by internationally renowned philosopher Richard Kearney who explains the book’s enduring importance and its role within Bachelard’s remarkable career. For more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,500 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Author : Gaston Bachelard
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0807064734

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The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard Pdf

The classic book on how we experience intimate spaces. "A magical book. . . . A prism through which all worlds from literary creation to housework to aesthetics to carpentry take on enhanced-and enchanted-significances. Every reader of it will never see ordinary spaces in ordinary ways. Instead the reader will see with the soul of the eye, the glint of Gaston Bachelard." -from the foreword by John R. Stilgoe 6473-4 / $15.00tx / paperback

Author : Gaston Bachelard
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1971-06-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0807064130

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The Poetics of Reverie by Gaston Bachelard Pdf

In this, his last significant work, an admired French philosopher provides extraordinary meditations on the relations between the imagining consciousness and the world, positing the notion of reverie as its most dynamic point of reference. In his earlier book, The Poetics of Space, Bachelard considered several kinds of "praiseworthy space" conducive to the flow of poetic imagery. In Poetics of Reverie he considers the absolute origins of that imagery: language, sexuality, childhood, the Cartesian ego, and the universe. Approaching the psychology of wonder from the phenomenological viewpoint, Bachelard demonstrates the aurgentative potential of all that awareness. Thus he distinguishes what is merely a phenomenon of relaxation from the kind of reverie which "poetry puts on the right track, the track of expanding consciousness"

Author : Bruce A. Bergner
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476603346

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The Poetics of Stage Space by Bruce A. Bergner Pdf

This book analyzes theatre scene design through the powers and characteristics of physical space. Physical space is central to creative composition in the theatre, but the author extends the reach of the book to individuals concerned with spatial design—architects, interior designers, industrial designers, artists and other performers. A theory is presented on how design, and its creative process, echo the process of human awareness and action. The book covers an array of considerations for the theatre designer—the observable features of given physical spaces, their layout, detailing and atmosphere—and presents these features from the points of view of various disciplines. There are chapters on the “physics” of space, the “geography” of space and the “music” of space. The author also speaks to the less tangible qualities sensed more personally, such as the “spirituality” or the “psyche” of space. A discussion of the collaborative process of creating space is included. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

Author : Doina Petrescu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2007-05-07
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781134325337

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Altering Practices by Doina Petrescu Pdf

This collection of essays addresses and defines the state of contemporary theories and practices of space: it is concerned with the growing importance of technology and communications, the effects of globalization and the change of social demands. Within the current urban and geopolitical contexts, it addresses the emergence of new social and political theories that raise questions of identity and difference in modern society. The book reiterates feminist concerns with space from the critical stance of the new millennium. With contributions from the leading theorists and thinkers from around the world representing the fields of architecture, art, philosophy and gender studies, this book has a truly international and interdisciplinary reach.

Author : Gaston Bachelard
Publisher : Spring Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1998-07-23
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 088214331X

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On Poetic Imagination and Reverie by Gaston Bachelard Pdf

Author : Gaston Bachelard
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1987-01-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0807064610

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The Psychoanalysis of Fire by Gaston Bachelard Pdf

"[Bachelard] is neither a self-confessed and tortured atheist like Satre, nor, like Chardin, a heretic combining a belief in God with a proficiency in modern science. But, within the French context, he is almost as important as they are because he has a pseudo-religious force, without taking a stand on religion. To define him as briefly as possible – he is a philosopher, with a professional training in the sciences, who devoted most of the second phase of his career to promoting that aspect of human nature which often seems most inimical to science: the poetic imagination ..." – J.G. Weightman, The New York Times Review of Books

Author : Neal Alexander,David Cooper
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781846318641

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Poetry & Geography by Neal Alexander,David Cooper Pdf

Drawing on the recent focus on spatial imagination in the humanities and social sciences, Poetry and Geography looks at the significance of space, place, and landscape in the works of British and Irish poets, offering interpretations of poems by Roy Fisher, R. S. Thomas, John Burnside, Thomas Kinsella, Jo Shapcott, and many others. Its fourteen essays collectively sketch a series of intersections between language and location, form and environment, and sound and space, exploring poetry's unique capacity to invigorate and expand our spatial vocabularies and the many relationships we have with the world around us.

Author : Monika Szuba,Julian Wolfreys
Publisher : Springer
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030126452

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The Poetics of Space and Place in Scottish Literature by Monika Szuba,Julian Wolfreys Pdf

This book addresses the poetics of space and place in Scottish literature. Focusing chiefly on twentieth- and twenty-first century texts, with acknowledgement of historical and philosophical contexts, the essays address representation, narrative form, the work of the poetic, perception and experience. Major genres and forms are discussed, and authors as diverse as George Mackay Brown, Kathleen Jamie, Ken McLeod and Kei Miller are presented through theoretically informed, historically contextualized close readings. Additionally considering the role of dialect and region in the poetry and fiction of modern Scotland, the volume argues for an appreciation of the cultural diversity of Scottish writers while highlighting the overarching presence of a connection between self and world, subject and place within Scottish literature.

Author : Jeff T. Johnson
Publisher : punctum books
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781947447448

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Trouble Songs by Jeff T. Johnson Pdf

Poet, critic, and hybrid-genre artist Johnson tracks the use of trouble in word, concept, and practice in this debut of brief, elliptical, lyric essays. He moves through a wide swath of 20th- and 21st-century music, always alert to a sense of melancholy shared among songwriters, their songs, and their listeners in the ever-growing web of popular music. "When we say 'trouble,' we refer to the history of trouble whether or not we have it in mind. When we sing trouble, we sing (with) history," Johnson writes. "A Trouble Song is a complaint, a grievance, an aside, a come-on, a confession, an admission, a resignation, a plea. It's an invitation-to sorrow." The effect of all this trouble is dizzying. Highly annotated-often to personal, humorous, and hidden effects-the book weaves among genres, chronologies, and various forms of trouble to ask "Where are we in song? Who are we in song?" Johnson suggests that an answer lies somewhere in the locus of singer, song, and listener-the "essential relations in the Trouble Song." Detouring into philosophy, cultural theory, and verse, Johnson works multilaterally to explore what trouble in popular music does to connect listeners, embolden them, and open a space from which trouble can be addressed across time.

Author : Antonello Boschi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-05
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000456318

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Poetics of Underground Space by Antonello Boschi Pdf

This book investigates the relationship architecture has with the underground. It provides a broad ranging historical and theoretical survey of, and critical reflection on, ideas pertaining to the creation and occupation of underground space. It overturns the classic dictates of construction on the surface and through numerous examples explores recoveries of existing voids, excavations, caves, quarries, grottos and burrows. The exploitation of land, especially in areas of particular value, has given rise to the need to reformulate the usual approach to building. If the development of urban sprawl, its infrastructure and its networks, generates increasingly compromised landscapes, what are the possible strategies to transform, expand and change the usual relationship between abuse of soil and unused subsoil? Psychological, philosophical, literary and cinematographic legacies of underground architecture are mixed with the compositional, typological and constructive expedients, to produce a rich, diverse and compelling argument for these spaces. As such, the book will appeal to architecture students, scholars and academics as well as those with an interest in literary theory, cinema and cultural studies.

Author : Subha Mukherji
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780857286659

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Thinking on Thresholds by Subha Mukherji Pdf

Through a combination of case studies and theoretical investigations, the essays in this book address the imaginative power of the threshold as a productive space in literature and art.

Author : H. Yeung
Publisher : Springer
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137478276

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Spatial Engagement with Poetry by H. Yeung Pdf

Drawing from a broad range of contemporary British poets, including Thomas Kinsella, Kathleen Jamie, and Alice Oswald, this study examines the inherently spatial and affective nature of our engagement with poetry. Adding to the expanding field of geocritical studies, Yeung specifically discusses ideas of space and constructions of voice in poetry.

Author : Steven A. Yates
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Photography, Artistic
ISBN : UOM:39015026919350

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Poetics of Space by Steven A. Yates Pdf

This volume begins with the early modern period when avant-garde artists were challenging the traditional aesthetic with Constructivism and Futurism in Russia, Dadaism and Surrealism in Germany and France, and new forms of photography - collage, photomontage, photograms, and so on - were emerging throughout the Western art world. Included also are influential mid-century essays by Gaston Bachelard, Leo Steinberg, and William M. Ivins, as well as essays on contemporary art issues by L. Lippard, F. Sommer, and J. Snider.

Author : Eileen Rizo-Patron,Edward S. Casey,Jason M. Wirth
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438466057

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Adventures in Phenomenology by Eileen Rizo-Patron,Edward S. Casey,Jason M. Wirth Pdf

Repositions Bachelard as a critical and integral part of contemporary continental philosophy. Like Schelling before him and Deleuze and Guattari after him, Gaston Bachelard made major philosophical contributions to the advancement of science and the arts. In addition to being a mathematician and epistemologist whose influential work in the philosophy of science is still being absorbed, Bachelard was also one of the most innovative thinkers on poetic creativity and its ethical implications. His approaches to literature and the arts by way of elemental reverie awakened long-buried modes of thinking that have inspired literary critics, depth psychologists, poets, and artists alike. Bachelard’s extraordinary body of work, unduly neglected by the English-language reception of continental philosophy in recent decades, exhibits a capacity to speak to the full complexity and wider reaches of human thinking. The essays in this volume analyze Bachelard as a phenomenological thinker and situate his thought within the Western tradition. Considering his work alongside that of Schelling, Husserl, Bergson, Buber, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Gadamer, Deleuze, and Nancy, this collection highlights some of Bachelard’s most provocative proposals on questions of ontology, hermeneutics, ethics, environmental politics, spirituality, and the possibilities they offer for productive transformations of self and world.