Ornament as Crisis: Architecture, Design, and Modernity in Hermann Broch's "The Sleepwalkers" - Hardcover

McGaughey, Sarah

9780810131873: Ornament as Crisis: Architecture, Design, and Modernity in Hermann Broch's "The Sleepwalkers"

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ISBN 10: 0810131870 ISBN 13: 9780810131873

Publisher: Northwestern University Press, 2016

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.

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Sarah McGaughey is an associate professor and chair of the German Department at Dickinson College, USA.

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PublisherNorthwestern University Press
Publication date2016
ISBN 10 0810131870
ISBN 13 9780810131873
BindingHardcover
Edition number1
Number of pages232

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