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  • Italo Calvino's Architecture of Lightness

    The Utopian Imagination in An Age of Urban Crisis

    Series series Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
    This study recovers Italo Calvino's central place in a lost history of interdisciplinary thought, politics, and literary philosophy in the 1960s. Drawing on his letters, essays, critical reviews, and fiction, as well as a wide range of works--primarily urban planning and design theory and history--circulating among his primary interlocutors, this book takes as its point of departure a sweeping ... Leer más

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    From Here to Eternity

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  • How Architecture Works

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    The prize-winning scholar's "expert, holistic, down-to-earth guide" to the beauty and function of architecture ( Booklist , starred review).We spend most of our days and nights in buildings. They are the setting of our everyday lives as well as a public art form. Yet architecture remains a mystery to most of us. In How Architecture Works, Witold Rybczynski, a renowned critic and winner of the ... Leer más

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  • Experiences in Translation

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    Series series Emilio Goggio Publications Series
    In this book Umberto Eco argues that translation is not about comparing two languages, but about the interpretation of a text in two different languages, thus involving a shift between cultures. An author whose works have appeared in many languages, Eco is also the translator of Gérard de Nerval's Sylvie and Raymond Queneau's Exercices de style from French into Italian. In Experiences in ... Leer más

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  • Mysteries of the Mall

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  • Little White Houses

    How the Postwar Home Constructed Race in America

    de Dianne Harris ...
    Series series Architecture, Landscape and Amer Culture
    A rare exploration of the racial and class politics of architecture, Little White Houses examines how postwar media representations associated the ordinary single-family house with middle-class whites to the exclusion of others, creating a powerful and invidious cultural iconography that continues to resonate today. Drawing from popular and trade magazines, floor plans and architectural drawings, ... Leer más

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  • Ladies Errant

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  • The Gospel of Matthew

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    Series Libro 16 - European Studies in Theology, Philosophy and History of Religions
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  • The Importance of Place in Contemporary Italian Crime Fiction

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  • A Multitude of Women

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    Thomas Mann’s novel Der Zauberberg (1913–1924) illustrates a change in the author’s conceptions of life, death, disease and Eros following World War I. Set in a Swiss tuberculosis sanatorium, the novel’s main protagonist, Hans Castorp, comes into contact with three pedagogic figures who each represent a different attitude towards these themes. The humanist Settembrini, for example, affirms life ... Leer más

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