Housing Problems

Examines architectural figures and problems of containment and construction in a variety of literary and theoretical texts. We will consider how images of buildings structure texts and outline spaces for subjectivity. Themes include the gothic, haunted houses, foundations, ruins, walls, and doors. Texts selected from Descartes, Derrida, Goethe, Hegel, Austen, Coleridge, Poe, Baudelaire, Melville, Hawthorne, Kafka, Tschumi and Borges.