Cultural Landscapes Seminar Outline
Winter Term, 2015
Cultural Landscapes Seminar: ARCH 566 (3 credits)
Robert Mellin, CM, RCA, Ph.D., FRAIC, NLAA, Associate Professor
School of Architecture, McGill University
Seminar meets Wednesdays from 8:35am-11:25pm in room 207
Office hours by appointment: 398-6719 or by email
robert.mellin@mcgill.ca
Catalogue Description:
An overview of cultural landscapes studies, methodologies, and resources. Comparative
studies of the connection between people, particular places, and artifact systems are
interpreted through architecture, critical regionalism, and material culture. Precedents for
the interpretation of cultural landscapes by architects, ethnologists, anthropologists,
folklorists, historians, writers, filmmakers, photographers, and artists are presented.
Course webpage:
http://www.arch.mcgill.ca/prof/mellin/clwinter2015.index.html
Please note that the course outline and schedule will be updated weekly on the web page,
so you should check for clarifications, possible schedule changes, and for supplementary
references. PDF files for many of the assigned readings (except for the novels of Sebald)
and for some supplementary readings will be available online.
Pedagogical objectives:
This seminar provides an overview of cultural landscapes studies, methodologies, and
resources, including analysis and discussion of the work of architects embracing critical
regionalism in architecture and housing. Comparative studies of the connection between
people, particular places, and artifact systems are interpreted through architecture, critical
regionalism, housing, urban design, material culture, and intangible culture. Rather than
focusing on the study of individual buildings, the focus of this course is on understanding
and interpreting the artifact system at all scales, reaching beyond the study of form to
syndetically interpret meaning and address values.
Required submissions:
Fieldwork Project: (student presentations on April 8)
You will prepare a small project that interprets and represents a particular cultural
landscape in Montreal or elsewhere. Be prepared to present your work to your colleagues
during the last seminar session. The end-of-term project should have the format of Anne
Meredith Berry’s Gros Morne Time Lines (see the pdf file linked to the web page). Gros
Morne Time Lines is a fold out book, but you will produce a web version that requires
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scrolling to the right (continuous images) on a standard Dreamweaver web page template
I will provide that uses a simple table for positioning images. If you are not comfortable
using Dreamweaver or if you do not have this program, you may submit jpg images. This
piece (text, photos, drawings) will feature your documentation and interpretation of a
particular area, building, condition, way of living, or artifact in Montreal (or elsewhere if
you have access during the term), with reference to time, place, space, and possibly with
reference to other aspects like light, materials, and details. As you will find from your
readings on Sebald (see Searching for Sebald), the visual character / layout of text and
graphics is very important for this assignment.
Each “page” or image on the sample of the assignment format on the course web page is
a jpg image 6” wide by 8” high at a resolution of 105dpi. Folded paper in a book was
used for continuity in the original document. However, you can enhance the continuity by
presenting a continuous image with graphics and text arranged accordingly. For example,
if you decide to have 20 pages with the dimensions shown above, you can present one
final image that is 120” wide by 8” high at 105dpi (you must use width multiples of 6”).
The final image must be in jpg format (colour or grayscale) at 105pdi for the web page,
and a second image at 300dpi (same dimension constraints) must be provided for printing
purposes. Your name and your project title must be integrated in the graphic design of
your images. If after your presentation in class you may need more time to revise or
refine your end-of-term project or for printing or for your web page, please let me
know in advance.
A point of departure for independent study that may help you to prepare for your end-ofterm project for this course involves the novels of Sebald (Austerlitz, or The Rings of
Saturn, or The Emigrants) and a particular secondary source (Searching for Sebald:
Photography after W. G. Sebald: The Institute for Cultural Inquiry, Los Angeles, 2007).
Sebald’s novels are readily available either from the library or bookstores. I hope you fill
find time to read at least one novel by mid-term. I will request Searching for Sebald for
reserve books at the library. Also, see Clare Melhuis, “Editorial: Why Anthropology?” in
Architectural Design Profile: Architecture and Anthropology [New York: VCH
Publishers, 2000, folio NA2543 S6 A6 1996], 7.).
Grading:
Text describing your proposed fieldwork project
Mid-term review of fieldwork project:
Project Presentation April 8:
End-of-term project:
15%
25%
10%
50%
Seminar Schedule (see the course web page for updates)
McGill Policy Statements:
Please make sure you read the information in the section titled “McGill Policy
Statements” on the McGill University web page below:
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http://www.mcgill.ca/tls/resources/outline/#GENERAL
Bibliography
(note that you do NOT have to read all these books. They are presented here for your
convenience and possible reference)
Library books on reserve in blue:
Cultural Landscapes: General
Aalen., F.H.A.; Kevin Whelan; Matthew Scott. Atlas of the Irish Rural Landscape
(Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997). folio G1831 G4 A84 1997
Abrams, Janet, and Peter Hall, eds. Else/Where: Mapping New Cartographies of
Networks and Territories (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006). GA139
E48 2006 (missing from McGill library).
Adams, Annmarie and Sally McMurray, Exploring Everyday Landscapes: Perspectives
in Vernacular Architecture VII (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1997)
Alanen, Arnold R.; Robert Z. Melnick, eds. Preserving Cultural Landscapes in America
(Baltimore: John’s Hopkins University Press, 2000). E159 P746 2000
Alexander, Christopher et. al. A Pattern Language (New York: Oxford University Press,
1977) NA9050 A49x
Archer, Caroline with Alexandre Parré. Paris Underground (West New York, N.J.: Mark
Batty Publisher, 2005).
Backhaus Symbolic Landscapes (Gary, John Murungi, editors, Springer, 2008) GF41 S96
2009.
Berke, Deborah and Steven Harris, Editors The Architecture of the Everyday (New York:
Princeton Architectural Press, 1997) NA2543 S6 A633 1997
Burns, Carol J. and Andrea Kahn, eds. Site Matters: Design Concepts, Histories, and
Strategies (New York: Routledge, 2005). NA2540.5 B86 2005
Canizaro, Vincent B., Editor. Architectural Regionalism: Collected Writings on Place,
Identity, Modernity, and Tradition (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2007).
NA682 R44 A73 2007
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Carter, Thomas and Elizabeth Collins Cromley. Vernacular Architecture: A Guide to the
Study of Ordinary Buildings and Landscapes (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press,
2005). NA705 C38 2005
Cauthen, Sudye. Southern Comforts: Rooted in a Florida Place (Chicago: Center for
American Places, 2007).
Corner James, Editor; Recovering Landscape: Essays in Contemporary Landscape
Architecture (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1999). SB472 R385 1999
Cosgrove, Denis E. Geometry and Vision: Seeing, Imagining and Representing the World
(New York: I. B. Tauris, 2008). G71.5 C67 2008
Cosgrove, Denis E. Social Formation and Symbolic Landscape (London: Croom Helm,
1984). GF90 C67 1984
Cosgrove, Denis E.; Stephen Daniels: The Iconography of Landscape: Essays in the
Symbolic Representation, design, and Use of Past Environments (New York: Cambridge
University Press, 1988). NX650 L34 I26 1988
Coyula Havana: Two Faces of the Antillean Metropolis (Mario et. al.) HT384 C92 H387
2002
Czerniak, Julia; George Hargreaves. Large Parks (New York, Princeton Architectural
Press, 2007). SB481 L37 2007
de Certeau The Practice of Everyday Life (, Michel, with Luce Giard and Pierre Mayol)
HN8 C4313 1984 (try to find the U. of Minnesota 1998 edition if you decide to purchase
this book)
Duany, Andres, Towns and Town Making Principles NA9015 C35 G86 1991
Ewan, Rebecca Fish. A Land Between: Owens Valley, California (Baltimore: John’s
Hopkins University Press, 2000).
Friedman, Avi. A Place in Mind: The Search for Authenticity (Montreal: Vehicule Press,
2010).
Glassie, Henry. Art and Life in Bangladesh (Bloomington: Indiana University Press,
1997).
Glassie, Henry. Passing the Time in Ballymenone (Philadelphia: University of
Pennsylvania Press, 1982) GR148 B34 G55 1982
Gillis, John R. Islands of the Mind: How the Human Imagination Created the Atlantic
World (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004). D21.3 G55 2004
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Gramp, Christopher. From Yard to Garden (Chicago: Center for American Places, 2008).
Groth, Paul and Todd W. Bressi, eds. Understanding Ordinary Landscapes (New Haven,
Yale University Press, 1997). GF90 U53 1997
Hart, John Fraser. My Kind of County: Door County, Wisconsin (Chicago: Center for
American Places, 2008).
Hayden, Dolores. The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes as Public History (Cambridge:
M.I.T. Press, 1997). F869 L857 H39 1995
Harmon, Katharine. You Are Here: Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the
Imagination (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2004).
Harp, Elmer Jr. Lives and Landscapes: A Photographic Memoir of Outport
Newfoundland and Labrador, 1949-1963 (Montreal: McGill Queens Press, 2003). HE554
A3 H37 2003
Illich, Ivan and David Cayley. Ivan Illich in Conversation (Concord, Ont.: Anansi, 1992).
Jackson, J. B. “The Westward Moving House,” in Landscapes: Selected Writings of J. B.
Jackson (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1970). HN57 J245
Jackson, J. B. A Sense of Place, a Sense of Time (New Haven, Yale University Press,
1994) F796 J27 1994
Jackson, J. B. The Necessity for Ruins, and Other Topics (Amherst: University of
Massachussetts Press, 1980). GF91 U6 J32
Jakle, John A. My Kind of Midwest (Chicago: Center for American Places, 2009).
Lang, Glenna, and Marjory Wunsch. Genius of Common Sense: Jane Jacobs and the
Story of The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Boston: David R. Godine, 2009).
Kalman, Maira The Principles of Uncertainty (New York: Penguin Press, 2007).
Kubler, George The Shape of Time (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1962) N66 K8
Lanier, Gabrielle and Bernard L. Herman. Everyday Architecture of the Mid-Atlantic:
Looking at Buildings and Landscapes (Baltimore: John’s Hopkins University Press,
1997). NA717 L36 1997
Lippard The Lure of the Local (Lucy) GF503 L56 1997
Lippard On the Beaten Track: Tourism, Art, and Place (Lucy) G155 A1 L57 1999
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Kennedy, John. Island Voices (Delft: Eburon Academic Publishers, 2006).
Marshall, Howard Wright. Paradise Valley, Nevada: The People and Buildings of an
American Place (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1995.
McKinnon, Richard. Vernacular Architecture of the Codroy Valley (Hull: Canadian
Museum of Civilization, 2002) NA746 N5 M22 2002
Mellin Robert. Tilting; House Launching, Slide Hauling, Potato Trenching, and Other
Tales from a Newfoundland Fishing Village (New York: Princeton Architectural Press,
2003) NA7243 T55 M45 2003
Melhuis, Clare. “Editorial: Why Anthropology?,” in Architectural Design Profile:
Architecture and Anthropology (New York: VCH Publishers, 2000), page 7,
folio NA2543 S6 A6 1996)
Moore, Charles The Place of Houses NA7125 M66Robinson, Tim. Stones of Aran:
Labyrinth (New York: NYRB, 1997).
Nordahl, Darrin. My Kind of Transit (Chicago: Center for American Places, 2008).
Pocius, Gerald L. A Place to Belong (Montreal: McGill Queen’s Press, 1991): HN110
C29 P63 1991
Rasmussen, Steen Eiler. Towns and Buildings (Cambridge: M.I.T. Press, 1951). NA9090
R313 1969
Robinson, Tim. Stones of Aran (New York: New York Review Books, 1986).
Rosenberg, Daniel and Anthony Grafton. Cartographies of Time: A History of the
Timeline (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2010).
Scott, A.J and E.W. Soja, eds. The City: Los Angeles and Urban Theory at the End of the
Twentieth Century (Berkeley: University of California Press. 1996).
Spirn, Anne Whiston. The Language of Landscape (New Haven: Yale University Press,
1998). SB472 S685 1998
Stillgoe, John. Alongshore (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994).
Soja, E.W. Postmetropolis: Critical Studies of Cities and Regions (Oxford: Basil
Blackwell, 2000).
Soja, E.W. Thirdspace: Journeys to Los Angeles and Other Real-and-Imagined Places
(Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1996).
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Soja, E.W. Postmodern Geographies: The Reassertion of Space in Critical Social Theory
(London: Verso Press, 1989).
Thomson, Nato. Experimental Geography: Radical Approaches to Landscape,
Cartography, and Urbanism (New York: Melville House, 2008).
Tuan, Yi-Fu. Religion: From Place to Placelessness (Chicago: Center for American
Places, 2009).
Tuan, Yi-Fu. Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience (Minneapolis: University
of Minnesota Press, 1977). G71.5 T8 1977
Waldheim, Charles. The Landscape Urbanism Reader (New York: Princeton
Architectural Press, 2006). SB472.7 L36 2006
Ware, Chris. Jimmy Corrigan (New York: Random House, 2000). PN6727 W285 J56
2000
Weisman, Alan. The World Without Us (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2007).
Wilson, Chris and Paul Groth, Everyday America: Cultural Landscape Studies after J. B.
Jackson (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003). GF91 U6 E94 2003
Zukin, Sharon. Landscapes of Power: From Detroit to Disney World (Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1991). HN59.2 Z85 1991
Architecture
Abalos, Iniki. The Good Life: A Guided Visit to the Houses of Modernity (Barcelona:
Editorial Gustavo Gili, 2001).
Abram, David. The Spell of the Sensuous (New York: Vintage, 1996).
Bachelard, Gaston. The Poetics of Space (Boston: Beacon Press, 1969) B2430 B253 P63
1994
Busch, Akiko Geography of Home (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1999)
NK2113 B87 1999
Caldwell, Michael. Strange Details (Cambridge, MIT Press, 2007).
Castro, Ricardo L. Rogelio Salmona (Bogota: Villegas Editores, 1998) folio NA879
S25 C38 1998
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Dean, Andrea Oppenheimer. Rural Studio (New York: Princeton Architectural Press,
2002) NA2300 A9 D43 2002
Glassie, Henry. Vernacular Architecture () NA208 G59 2000
Glassie, Henry. Folk Housing in Middle Virginia (Knoxville: University of Tennessee
Press, 1975).
Glassie, Henry. Vernacular Architecture (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000).
NA208 G59 2000
Herman, Bernard. Town House (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005).
NA7206 H47 2005
Hines, Thomas S., Richard Neutra and the Search for Modern Architecture NA737
N4 H5 2005
Holl, Steven Pamphlet Architecture No. 9 (New York: Princeton Architectural Press,
1983).
Joy, Rick. Rick Joy: Desert Works (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2002).
NA737 J69 A4 2002
Malnar, Joy Monice and Frank Vodvarka. Sensory Design (Minneapolis: University of
Minnesota, 2004). NK1520 M29 2004
McCoy, Esther, Case Study Houses, 1945-1962 NA7235 C2 M2 1977
Mellin, Robert. “A City of Towns: Alternatives for the Planning and Design of Housing
in St. John’s, Newfoundland,” External Research Program, CMHC, Ottawa, (file no.
6585-M108; CIDN 1095 0200001)
Mellin, Robert. “Site and Services Case Study,” M. Arch. Thesis (McGill, 1984) and
Open House International article. AS42 M3 1984 M48
Owen, David. A. Like No Other Place (Chicago: Center for American Places, 2010)
Pallasmaa, Juhani. The Eyes of the Skin (London: Academy Editions, 2005)
Pallasmaa, Juhani, The Thinking Hand (New York: Wiley, 2009)
Polyzoides, Stefanos, Courtyard Housing in Los Angeles NA7238 L6 P6 1982
Psarra, Sophia. Architecture and Narrative: The Formation of Space and Cultural
Meaning (New York: Routledge, 2009).
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Rapoport, Amos. House Form and Culture (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1969).
GN414 A1 R33
Rossi, Aldo. The Architecture of the City (Cambridge: M.I.T. Press, 1982)
NA9031 R6713
Rossi, Aldo A Scientific Autobiography (Cambridge: M.I.T. Press, 1981) NA1123
R616 A2 1981
Woodin, John. City of Memory: New Orleans Before and After Katrina (Chicago: Center
for American Places, 2009).
Artists, Photographers
Abell, Sam. The Life of a Photograph (Washington: National Geographic Society, 2008).
Becher, Bernd; Hilla Becher; Armin Zweite. Typologies (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2004).
TR654 B41913 2004
Barry, Anne Meredith and Kevin Major, Tara Bryan. Gros Morne Time Lines (St. John’s:
Walking Bird Press) See the pdf file.
Barry, Anne Meredith. Natural Energies (St. John’s: The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery,
2007).
Beer, Oliver. Lucien Hervé: Building Images (Los Angles, Getty, 2004).
Breisch, Kenneth A. Where We Live: Photographs of America from the Berman
Collection (Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2006).
Burtynsky, Edward. Burtynsky-China (Gottingen: Steidl, 2005).
Creates, Marlene. Signs of Our Time TR647 C733 2006
Creates, Marlene Places of Presence N6549 C74 A4 1993b
Creates, Marlene Language and Land use N6549 C74 A4 1998
Dailey, Victoria., Natalie Shivers, and Michael Dawson, L.A.’s Early Moderns:
Art/Architecture/Photography (Los Angeles: Balcony Press, 2003).
Deal, Joe. West and West (Chicago: Center for American Places, 2009).
Fried, Michael. Why Photography Matters as Art as Never Before (New Haven: Yale
University Press, 2008).
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Galassi, Peter. Jeff Wall (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2007). (there are many
other books on Jeff Wall in the library).
Greenburg, Jennifer. The Rockabillies (Chicago: Center for American Places, 2009).
Gregory, Danny. Everyday Matters (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2003).
Gursky, Andreas. Andreas Gursky (Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2007).
Gursky, Andreas. Architecture (Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2008).
Heiferman, Marvin. Now is Then: Snapshots from the Maresca Collection (Princeton
Architectural Press, New York, 2008).
Humble, John. A Place in the Sun: Photographs of Los Angeles by John Humble (Los
Angeles: Getty, 2007).
Kauffman, Ross. Born into Brothels (2004: view the special features after you watch the
DVD). HQ792 I5 B67 DVD
Keller, Judith and Anne Lacoste Where We Live: Photographs of America from the
Berman Collection (Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, 2006).
Lange, Christy, with Michael Fried and Joel Sternfeld. Stephen Shore (London: Phaidon,
2007).
Levine, Barbara, and Kirsten M. Jensen. Around the World: The Grand Tour in Photo
Albums (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2007).
Lutz, Joshua. Meadowlands (Brooklyn: powerHouse Books, 2008).
Lyon, Danny. Memories of Myself (New York: Phaidon, 2009).
TR654 S52225 2007
Mayer, Marc, and Ted Fishman, Mark Kingwell. China: The Photographs of Edward
Burtynsky (Allemagne: Steidl, 2005).
Paiva, Troy. Night Vision: The Art of Urban Exploration (San Francisco: Chronicle
Books, 2008).
Patt, Lise. Searching for Sebald: Photography after W. G. Sebald (Los Angeles: Institute
for Cultural Inquiry, 2007) PT2681 E18 Z85 2007
Polidori, Roberto. Robert Polidori’s Metropolis (New York: Metropolis Books, 2004).
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Pratt, Christopher. All My Own Work (Toronto: Douglas & McIntyre, 2005).
Southam, Jem. Landscape Stories (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2005).
Tagg, John. The Disciplinary Frame: Photographic Truths and the Capture of Meaning
(Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009).
Waldie, D. J. Close to Home: An American Album (Los Angeles: Getty, 2004).
Suburbia
Adams, A. "The Eichler Home: Intention and Experience in Postwar Suburbia," Gender,
Class, and Shelter: Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture V, edited by Elizabeth
Collins Cromley and Carter L. Hudgins (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press,
1995), 164-78. PDF file available online from:
http://www.arch.mcgill.ca/prof/adams/arch627/fall2008/pdf/The%20Eichler%20Home.p
df
Archer John. Architecture and Suburbia: from English Villa to American Dream House,
1690-2000 (Minneapolis: University of Minneapolis Press, 2005).
Blauvelt, Andrew., Ed. Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes (Minneapolis: Walker
Art Center, 2008) N8251 S56 W67 2008
Colomina, Beatriz. Domesticity at War (Cambridge: M.I.T. Press, 2007) NA7208 C589
2007
Dolores, Hayden. The Grand Domestic Revolution (Cambridge: M.I.T. Press, 1981)
HQ1426 H33
Dolores, Hayden. Redesigning the American Dream (New York: Norton, 1984) HD7293
H39 2002
Hayden, Dolores. A Field Guide to Sprawl (New York: Norton, 2004). HT321 H3856
2004
Hayden, Dolores. Building Suburbia: Green Fields and Urban Growth, 1820-2000 (New
York: Vintage Books, 2003). HT352 U5 H39 2003
Katz, Peter The New Urbanism (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2000) NA2542.4 K38 1994
Ingersoll, Richard. Sprawltown: Looking for the City at its Edges (New York: Princeton
Architectural Press, 2006). HT371 I547 2006
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Kunstler, James Howard. The Geography of Nowhere (New York: Simon & Schuster,
1993). NA2542.35 K86 1993
Kunstler, James Howard. The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate
Change, and Other Converging Catastrophies of the Twenty-First Century (New York:
Grove Press, 2005). TP355 K86 2006
Kunstler, James Howard. Home from Nowhere: Remaking our Everyday World for the
Twenty-First Century (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996). HT167 K85 1996
Lukez, Paul. Suburban Transformations (New York: Princeton Architectural Press,
2007). HT351 L85 2007
Stringfellow, Kim. Jackrabbit Homestead: Tracing the Small Tract Act in the Southern
California Landscape, 1938-2008 (Chicago: Center for American Places, 2009).
Material Culture
Arkhipov, Vladimir. Home Made: Contemporary Russian Folk Artifacts (London: Fuel
Publishing, 2006). NK975 H66 2006
Betsky, Aaron; et al. Scanning: the Aberrant Architectures of Diller & Scofidio (New
York: Whitney Museum, 2003). NA737 D56 A4 2003
Deetz, James. In Small Things Forgotten (New York: Anchor Books, 1996). F6 D43
1996
Glassie, Henry. Pattern in the Material Folk Culture of the Eastern United States
(Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1968). GR105 G56
Glassie, Henry. Material Culture (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999). GN406
G53 1999
Pocius, Gerald, et. al. Living in a Material World (St. John’s: ISER, 1991) HC117
N4 N47 no.19
Shukla, Pravina. The Grace of Four Moons: Dress, Adornment, and the Art of the Body
in Modern India (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008). GT1460 S55 2008
Sudjic, Deyan. The Language of Things (London: Penguin, 2008).
Stafford, Barbara, and Frances Terpak. Devices of Wonder: From the World in a Box to
Images on a Screen (Los Angeles: Getty, 2001). N72 T4 S73 2001
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Literature
Bernstein, Susan. Housing Problems : Writing and Architecture in Goethe, Walpole,
Freud, and Heidegger (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2008). PN56 A73 B47 2008
Carpentier, Alejo, “Baroque and the Marvelous Real, ” in Lois Parkinson Zamora and
Wendy B. Faris, eds., Magical Realism: Theory, History, Community (Durham: Duke
University Press, 1995), 89-108.
Cheever, John. The Stories of John Cheever (New York: Knopf, 1978) PS3505 H62 S7:
especially “The Housebreaker of Shady Hill.”
Levine, Karen. Hana’s Suitcase (Toronto: Second Story Press, 2006) DS135 C97 B6655
2003
Marx, Ursula., Ed. Walter Benjamin’s Archive: Images, Texts, Signs (New York: Verso,
2007). PT2603 E455 Z932513 2007
Mistry, Rohinton. A Fine Balance (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1995). PS8576 I69
F5 1995
Schwartz, Lynne Sharon. The Emergence of Memory: Conversations with W. G. Sebald
(New York: Seven Stories Press, 2007). PT2681 E18 Z46 2007
W. G. Sebald. Austerlitz (New York: Random House, 2001). PT2681 E18 A9513 200
Sebald, W. G The Emigrants (New York: New Directions, 1996). PT2681 E18 A9413
1996
Sebald W. G. The Rings of Saturn (New York: New Directions, 1998). PT2681 E18 R56
1998
Shields, Carol The Stone Diaries (New York: Viking, 1994) PS8587 H53 S86 2002