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The process of probing beneath and even shaving or sanding away the language undergirding literary works that, word by word, line by line and page by page, sustains a narrative's arc, contributes to the perspective of writer as architect. For it not only positions, but also reinforces the significance of line, mass, texture, balance, scale and proportion in a new world, a created structure and the spaces that organize it, that if expertly executed, endures over time.
Contents
Foreword by Rochelle Hendricks, Secretary of New Jersey Higher Education
Preface and Organization of the Book
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Writers as Architects: Exploring Parallel Concepts in Architecture and Literature
Chapter 2: A Meditation on Lines, Direction, Movement and Mass: The Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva
Chapter 3: Light, Color and Space in Select Poems by Robert Hass
Chapter 4: Glimpses of Proportion and Symmetry: F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
Chapter 5: Unraveling Texture in William Faulkner's Light in August
Chapter 6: Toward Plumbing Architectural and Narrative Space in Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, "Soldier's Home", and "A Clean Well-Lighted Place"
Chapter 7: Tension, Compression and Pacing in Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita and Pnin
Chapter 8: Exploring Pattern and Rhythm: Alice Munro's "Dulse" and "Labor Day Dinner"
Chapter 9: Appreciating Unity and Harmony in Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day
Chapter 10: The Role of Order and Propriety in William Gass' In the Heart of the Heart of the Country
Chapter 11: Investigating Balance in Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary and The First Sentimental Education
References
Index
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