Corridor : media architectures in American fiction / Kate Marshall.

Main entry:

Marshall, Kate, 1976-

Title & Author:

Corridor : media architectures in American fiction / Kate Marshall.

Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2013]

Description:

xvii, 233 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface : "All that I need is a hallway" -- IIntroduction: Corridoricity -- Becoming media in an American tragedy -- Infrastructural modernity -- The flu and the media, or contagion 1918 -- Corridors of power -- Epilogue: Open plan.

Summary:

This book offers a series of conceptually provocative readings that illuminate a hidden relationship between architectural space and modern American fiction. By looking at fictional descriptions of some of modernity's least remarkable structures, such as plumbing, ductwork, and airshafts, the author discovers a network of connections between corridors and novels, one that also sheds new light on the nature of modern media. The corridor is the dominant organizational structure in modern architecture, yet its various functions are taken for granted, and it tends to disappear from view. But even the most banal structures become strangely visible in the noisy communication systems of American fiction.

ISBN:

9780816679270 (hc ; acid-free paper)
0816679274 (hc ; acid-free paper)
9780816679287 (pb ; acid-free paper)
0816679282 (pb ; acid-free paper)

Subject:

American fiction History and criticism.
Space (Architecture) in literature.
Architecture, Domestic, in literature.
Roman américain Histoire et critique.
Espace (Architecture) dans la littérature.
Architecture domestique dans la littérature.
American fiction.
Architektur
Roman.
Raum.
USA.

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 283316
Call No.: BIB 221385
Notes: pbk.
Status: Available

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