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Title Our house : the representation of domestic space in modern culture / edited by Gerry Smyth and Jo Croft.

Publication Info. Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2006.

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Description 1 online resource (268 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Nature, culture and literature ; 02
Nature, culture and literature ; 02.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction : Culture and domestic space / Gerry Smyth and Jo Croft -- Houses, habit and memory / Joe Moran -- 'You understand what domestic architecture ought to be, you do' : finding home in The wind in the willows / Gerry Smyth -- Life of a country cottage / Karen Sayer -- Labouring at leisure : aspects of lifestyle and the rise of home improvement / Ruth McElroy -- Safe house : authenticity, nostalgia and the Irish house / Shane Alcobia-Murphy -- 'The house ... has cancer' : representations of domestic space in the poetry of Carol Ann Duffy / Mari Hughes-Edwards -- Building, dwelling, moving : Seamus Heaney, Tom Paulin and the reverse aesthetic / Scott Brewster -- Troubled places : domestic space in graphic novels / Jeff Adams -- Householders : community, violence and resistance in three contemporary women's texts / Peter Childs -- Sonic architecture : home hi-fi and stereo(types) / Ron Moy -- A life of longing behind the bedroom door : adolescent space and the makings of private identity / Jo Croft -- One widower's home : excavating some disturbed meanings of domestic space / Joseph Boughey.
Summary Space has emerged in recent years as a radical category in a range of related disciplines across the humanities. Of the many possible applications of this new interest, some of the most exciting and challenging have addressed the issue of domestic architecture and its function as a space for both the dramatisation and the negotiation of a cluster of highly salient issues concerning, amongst other things, belonging and exclusion, fear and desire, identity and difference. Our House is a cross-disciplinary collection of essays taking as its focus both the prospect and the possibility of 'the hous.
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Subject Dwellings -- Psychological aspects.
Dwellings -- Psychological aspects.
Architecture, Domestic -- Psychological aspects.
Architecture, Domestic -- Psychological aspects.
Home in popular culture.
Home in popular culture.
Home in literature.
Home in literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Smyth, Gerry, 1961-
Croft, Jo.
Other Form: Print version: Our house. Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2006 9042019697 9789042019690 (OCoLC)71008368
ISBN 9781429468138 (electronic book)
1429468130 (electronic book)
9789401202817
9401202818
9042019697 (paperback)
9789042019690 (paperback)