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The poetics of space / Gaston Bachelard ; translated by Maria Jolas ; foreword by Mark Z. Danielewski ; introduction by Richard Kearney.

by Bachelard, Gaston, 1884-1962.

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Penguin Books, 2014.

Space and time.

Penguin classics.

9780143107521 (pbk.)

Poétique de l'espace. English

xxx, 268 p. ; 20 cm.

Translated from the French.

"First published in the United States of America by the Orion Press, Inc. 1964, this edition with a foreword by Mark Z. Danielewski and an introduction by Richard Kearney published in Penguin Books 2014"--T. p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-268).

Foreward / Mark Z. Danielewski -- Introduction / Richard Kearney -- Suggestions for further reading -- Introduction / Gaston Bachelard -- 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 -- Notes.

Contemplated by philosophers, architects, writers, and literary theorists alike, Bachelard's lyrical, landmark work examines the places in which we place our conscious and unconscious thoughts and guides us through a stream of cerebral meditations on poetry, art, and the blooming of consciousness itself.

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