Bauer, DominiqueKelly, Michael J.2024-05-282024-05-282019-03-2997819501921999781950192205dc622348-8ef4-48a3-9ab0-cf401d7afc2chttps://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0248.1.00https://thoth-arch.lib.cam.ac.uk/handle/1811/607Publication status: ACTIVEOn the unstable boundaries between “interior” and “exterior,” “private” and “public,” and always in some way relating to a “beyond,” the imagery of interior space in literature reveals itself as an often disruptive code of subjectivity and of modernity. The wide variety of interior spaces elicited in literature — from the odd room over the womb, secluded parks, and train compartments, to the city as a world under a cloth — reveal a common defining feature: these interiors can all be analyzed as codes of a paradoxical, both assertive and fragile, subjectivity in its own unique time and history. They function as subtexts that define subjectivity, time, and history as profoundly ambiguous realities, on interchangeable existential, socio-political, and epistemological levels. This volume addresses the imagery of interior spaces in a number of iconic and also lesser known yet significant authors of European, North American, and Latin American literature of the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries: Djuna Barnes, Edmond de Goncourt, William Faulkner, Gabriel García Márquez, Benito Pérez Galdós, Elsa Morante, Robert Musil, Jules Romains, Peter Waterhouse, and Émile Zola.https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/DSALIT024000AMRDSBHarchitecturecultural studiesinterior designliterary studiesspatialityhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_2f332024-05-28