Show simple item record

dc.contributor.convenorDr Naomi Stead
dc.contributor.authorBreen, Sally
dc.contributor.editorDr Naomi Stead
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T12:23:44Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T12:23:44Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.date.modified2013-11-12T22:39:54Z
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/53582
dc.description.abstractThis paper explores the relationship between literature and architecture with an organising focus on contemporary fiction. The connections between the two vocations have been variously demonstrated by scholars and practitioners in both fields. Usually these connections are read through with an ideology that is symbiotic and celebratory - certainly architecture and writing share potent connections structurally, philosophically and aesthetically. What is curious then, is the prevailing mood of urban alienation in contemporary fiction and more recently an emerging sense of suburban despair. Undoubtedly failings, dystopian visions and vacuous spectacles drive the urban vision from a literary point of view. Poetic reverie has been reserved historically for nature and it is natural aspects which continue to underpin many contemporary urban representations at the micro level; the depiction of rooms and houses, the line between beauty and function is usually enhanced not by what is built necessarily but the built environments proximity to natural forms: light, water, views, the passage of air. This paper suggests that a potential nexus between nature writing, fiction, and innovations in domestic and landscape architecture could posit alternatives to the prevailing myths about cities and suburbs that would be mutually enriching.
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.format.extent98656 bytes
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherURO Media
dc.publisher.placeMelbourne, Australia
dc.publisher.urihttps://www.uropublications.com/
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofconferencenameWriting Architecture: A Symposium and Workshop on Innovations in the Textual and Visual Critique of
dc.relation.ispartofconferencetitleSemi-Detached: Writing, Representation and Criticism in Architecture
dc.relation.ispartofdatefrom2010-07-19
dc.relation.ispartofdateto2010-07-23
dc.relation.ispartoflocationBrisbane, Australia
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchCreative Writing (incl. Playwriting)
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode190402
dc.titleIt's Not The End of the World but You Can See it From There
dc.typeConference output
dc.type.descriptionE2 - Conferences (Non Refereed)
dc.type.codeE - Conference Publications
gro.facultyArts, Education & Law Group, School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences
gro.rights.copyright© 2012 URO Media. The attached file is reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the conference's website for access to the definitive, published version.
gro.date.issued2012
gro.hasfulltextFull Text
gro.griffith.authorBreen, Sally


Files in this item

This item appears in the following Collection(s)

  • Conference outputs
    Contains papers delivered by Griffith authors at national and international conferences.

Show simple item record