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J. B. Metzler'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung & Carl Ernst Poeschel GmbH, Berlin, Heidelberg
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Rooms in Literary History -- 1.2 Rooms as Metaphor -- 1.3 The Spatial Turn -- 1.4 Space and Place -- 1.5 Globalization -- 1.6 Material Culture Studies -- 1.7 Fragments and Fragmentation...
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Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Rooms in Literary History -- 1.2 Rooms as Metaphor -- 1.3 The Spatial Turn -- 1.4 Space and Place -- 1.5 Globalization -- 1.6 Material Culture Studies -- 1.7 Fragments and Fragmentation -- 1.8 Outlook on the Chapters of the Dissertation -- 2 Paul Auster: The Invention of Solitude -- 2.1 The Room as Enemy -- 2.2 A.'s Room on 6 Varick Street -- 2.3 "The Representation of One Man's Inner World": S.' Room in Paris -- 2.4 The Writer's Room -- 2.5 Solitude -- 2.6 Claustrophilia -- 2.7 The Rhyming Triplet Room-Womb-Tomb -- 2.8 Conclusion -- 2.9 Outlook on the Following Chapter -- 3 Siri Hustvedt: The Blindfold -- 3.1 Porousness -- 3.2 The Mirror as Reality Check -- 3.3 Mirror Images -- 3.4 Flâneur and Flâneuse -- 3.5 The Body as a Room-The Body and the Room -- 3.6 The Fiction of Domesticity -- 3.7 Conclusion -- 3.8 Outlook on the Following Chapter -- 4 Richard Powers: Plowing the Dark -- 4.1 The Impossible Room -- 4.2 The Cavern -- 4.3 The Interludes -- 4.4 The Cell -- 4.5 Games, Fragmentation, and Ted's Room -- 4.6 Hagia Sophia-A Shared Space of Imagination -- 4.7 Conclusion -- 4.8 Outlook on the Following Chapter -- 5 Jonathan Safran Foer: "Room After Room" -- 5.1 Walls and Wallpaper -- 5.2 Games and Players -- 5.3 Life as a Sequence of Rooms -- 5.4 Bourgeois Surfaces -- 5.5 Fragmentation and Fragmentary Devices -- 5.6 The Room as Agent and Mediator -- 5.7 Narrative Fragments as Frameless Panels -- 5.8 Conclusion -- 6 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Primary literature: -- Secondary Literature:.
