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The poetics of space / Gaston Bachelard ; translated from the French by Maria Jolas ; with a new foreword by John R. Stilgoe.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: French Publisher: Boston, Massachusetts : Beacon Press, 1994Copyright date: ©1994Edition: 1994 editionDescription: xxxix, 241 pages ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0807064734
  • 9780807064733
Uniform titles:
  • Poétique de l'espace. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: No titleDDC classification:
  • 114 20
LOC classification:
  • B2430.B253 P6313 1994
Online resources:
Contents:
The house. From cellar to garret. The significance of the hut -- House and universe -- Drawers, chests and wardrobes -- Nests -- Shells -- Corners -- Miniature -- Intimate immensity -- The dialectics of outside and inside -- The phenomenology of roundness.
Summary: "The classic book on how we experience intimate spaces. "A magical book. . . . A prism through which all worlds from literary creation to housework to aesthetics to carpentry take on enhanced--and enchanted-significances. Every reader of it will never see ordinary spaces in ordinary ways. Instead the reader will see with the soul of the eye, the glint of Gaston Bachelard."--from the foreword by John R. Stilgoe6473-4 / $15.00tx / paperback"--Publisher description.
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Originally published: New York : Orion Press, 1964.

Translation of: La poétique de l'espace.

Includes bibliographical references.

The house. From cellar to garret. The significance of the hut -- House and universe -- Drawers, chests and wardrobes -- Nests -- Shells -- Corners -- Miniature -- Intimate immensity -- The dialectics of outside and inside -- The phenomenology of roundness.

"The classic book on how we experience intimate spaces. "A magical book. . . . A prism through which all worlds from literary creation to housework to aesthetics to carpentry take on enhanced--and enchanted-significances. Every reader of it will never see ordinary spaces in ordinary ways. Instead the reader will see with the soul of the eye, the glint of Gaston Bachelard."--from the foreword by John R. Stilgoe6473-4 / $15.00tx / paperback"--Publisher description.

Translated from French.

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