Architectural involutions : writing, staging, and building space, c. 1435-1650 / Mimi Yiu.

Main entry:

Yiu, Mimi, author.

Title & Author:

Architectural involutions : writing, staging, and building space, c. 1435-1650 / Mimi Yiu.

Publication:

Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2015.

Description:

320 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Series:

Rethinking the Early Modern

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-316) and index.
Building platforms -- Refacing Alberti -- How to double your pile (in the privacy of your own home) -- Unlocking Gertrude's closet -- Corpus, chora, crown -- Making the difference in Jonson's Epicoene -- Writing home : inside Samuel van Hoogstraten's perspective box.

Summary:

Taking the reader on an inward journey from façades to closets, from physical topsychic space, this book offers an alternative genealogy of theater byrevealing how innovations in architectural writing and practice transformed an earlymodern sense of interiority. As the English house underwent a process of inwardfolding, replacing a logic of central assembly with one of dissemination, the subjectwho negotiated this new scenography became a flashpoint of conflict in both domes-tic and theatrical arenas. The book launches from a matrix of related platforms - a term that in early modern usage denoted scaffolds, stages, and draftsmens sketches - to situate Alberti, Shakespeare, Jonson, and others within a landscape of spatial andvisual change. Engaging theory with archival findings, Mimi Yiu reveals an emergentdesire to perform subjectivity, to unfold an interior face to an admiring public.

ISBN:

9780810129863 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0810129868 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780810136595
0810136597

Subject:

Alberti, Leon Battista 1404-1472 De re aedificatoria
English drama Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 History and criticism.
Architecture, Domestic, in literature.
Dwellings Social aspects England History 16th century.
Architecture, Domestic Social aspects England History 16th century.
Theaters Stage-setting and scenery England History 16th century.
Théâtre anglais 16e siècle Histoire et critique.
Architecture domestique dans la littérature.
Habitations Aspect social Angleterre Histoire 16e siècle.
Architecture, Domestic Social aspects.
Dwellings Social aspects.
English drama Early modern and Elizabethan.
Theaters Stage-setting and scenery.
Innenraum
Theater
England.
Letteratura drammatica inglese 1435-1650 Temi [:] Architettura

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Added entries:

Rethinking the Early Modern.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 296283
Call No.: BIB 242724
Status: Available

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