Felicitous Space: The Imaginative Structures of Edith Wharton and Willa Cather
Felicitous Space: The Imaginative Structures of Edith Wharton and Willa Cather
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幸福空间：伊迪丝·华顿和威拉·凯瑟的想象结构
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10.2307/2926532
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发表时间：
1989
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0.2
通讯作者：
Judith E. Fryer
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作者：
Judith E. Fryer
朱迪丝·弗莱尔对小说家伊迪丝·华顿和威拉·凯瑟的研究是对女性居住、感知和创造的实际和想象空间的丰富考察。弗莱尔从历史、哲学、环境心理学、人类学、社会学、地理学以及文学、建筑学和绘画等方面对这个时代的传统里程碑--边疆、城市的崛起和第一次世界大战--展开了以女性为中心的探讨。这本书的概念纽带是那个时期的女性结构：1893年芝加哥世界哥伦布博览会上的女性建筑和1915年夏洛特·珀金斯·吉尔曼想象的女权主义乌托邦社区赫兰德。弗莱尔聚焦于女性的经历，提出了一系列与幻想结构有关的沉思--一座房子、一个房间、一套家具、一幅风景、一个故事的规划。弗莱尔对伊迪丝·华顿和威拉·凯瑟的小说进行了新的解读，脱离了现有的传记或心理分析，为这些受过教育的女性提供了一种关于空间意义的原创观点。弗莱尔认为，沃顿和凯瑟背离了主流文化的惯常“美国”表达方式，而是探索和记录他们自己的经历。她专注于他们富有想象力的结构，从沃顿精心构思的内部，其中包括眼睛所能涵盖的一切，到凯瑟没有家具的房间和风景，这是她的身体和精神上的关联。在展示女性居住的空间与她们富有想象力的创作的语言之间的关系时，弗莱尔为正在进行的创造力与环境之间的研究带来了新的意义。北卡罗来纳大学出版社经久版--北卡罗来纳大学出版社经久版使用最新的数字技术，再次提供我们杰出的积压书目中以前绝版的书籍。这些版本在原始版本的基础上原封不动地出版，并以负担得起的平装格式呈现，为读者带来了历史和文化价值。
Judith Fryer's study of novelists Edith Wharton and Willa Cather is a rich examination of the actual and imagined spaces women inhabit, perceive, and create. Turning to the period of ""America's coming of age,"" Fryer offers a woman-centered inquiry into an era whose traditional landmarks are the frontier, the rise of the city, and World War I. Fryer draws her analysis from history, philosophy, environmental psychology, anthropology, sociology, and geography as well as from literature, architechure, and painting. The book's conceptual bonds are women's structures of the period: the Woman's Building at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893 and the 1915 feminist utopian community, Herland, imagined by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Focusing on the experience of women, Fryer presents a series of meditations that are concerned with the structures of fantasy -- a plan for a house, a room, a set of furnishings, a landscape, a story. Offering new readings of the fictions of Edith Wharton and Willa Cather that depart from existing biographical or psychological analyses, Fryer provides an original view of the meaning of space for such educated women. Wharton and Cather departed from the customary ""American"" expressions of the dominant culture, Fryer argues, to explore and inscribe their own experiences. She focuses on their imaginative structures, from Wharton's meticulously conceived interiors, which include all that the eye can encompass, to Cather's unfurnished rooms and landscapes, which are her physical and spiritual correlatives. In demonstrating the relationship between the spaces women inhabit and the language of their imaginative creations, Fryer brings new meaning to the ongoing investigations of creativity versus environment. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.