Literary Architecture: Essays Toward a Tradition : Walter Pater, Gerald Manly Hopkins, Marcel Proust, Henry James

by Ellen Eve Frank

Very unusual format here. Wrap-around flexible hard covers, with a wrap-around dust jacket. 1979, University of California Press, Berkeley, CA. Hardcover / flex title, 312 pages. Beautifully printed work, with duo-tone photos throughout. 37 plates in all. The author states that writers often use literature as a part of their own consciousness and perception. The author, using various authors as examples, shows "the value and interest to literary and architectural scholars, cultural historians, and a wide cultivated audience."

Genres: Architecture

315 pages, Hardcover

First published December 1, 1979

Reviews

[Siera Mae · Rating 5 out of 5]

If you haven’t finished In Search of Lost Time, but want to read the section on Proust - hold off until you finish. Dangerously close to a spoilerino-cappuccino. That being said, super duper great read :)

[Garnel Gulya · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nice phenomenology of metaphor. Highly original. Four and half stars would be more appropriate only because there's a bunch of Henry James' prose toward the end.