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OverviewTaking the reader on an inward journey from facades to closets, from physical to psychic space, Architectural Involutions offers an alternative genealogy of theater by revealing how innovations in architectural writing and practice transformed an early modern sense of interiority. As the English house underwent a process of inward folding, replacing a logic of central assembly with one of dissemination, the subject who negotiated this new scenography became a flashpoint of conflict in both domestic and theatrical arenas. The book launches from a matrix of related platforms - a term that in early modern usage denoted scaffolds, stages, and draftsmen's sketches - to situate Alberti, Shakespeare, Jonson, and others within a landscape of spatial and visual change. Engaging theory with archival findings, Mimi Yiu reveals an emergent desire to perform subjectivity, to unfold an interior face to an admiring public. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Mimi YiuPublisher: Northwestern University Press Imprint: Northwestern University Press ISBN: 9780810129863ISBN 10: 0810129868 Pages: 277 Publication Date: 15 November 2015 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsReviewsMimi Yiu s <i>Architectural Involutions: Writing, Staging, and Building Space, c. 1435 1650 </i>combines theoretical sophistication with in-depth close readings and archival work. The notion of architecture s impact on the early modern sense of psychic space and interiority is original and convincingly developed in this well-written and well-illustrated work. Yiu offers an exciting approach to understanding the architectural theories that reshaped the social and practical modes of building and design. Modern Language Association</p> Mimi Yiu's Architectural Involutions: Writing, Staging, and Building Space, c. 1435-1650 combines theoretical sophistication with in-depth close readings and archival work. The notion of architecture's impact on the early modern sense of psychic space and interiority is original and convincingly developed in this well-written and well-illustrated work. Yiu offers an exciting approach to understanding the architectural theories that reshaped the social and practical modes of building and design. --Modern Language Association Author InformationMimi Yiu is an assistant professor of English at Georgetown University, USA. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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