TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bachelard,Gaston
AU  - Jolas,M.
TI  - The poetics of space
SN  - 0807064734
AV  - B2430.B253 P6313 1994 
PY  - 1994///
CY  - Boston
PB  - Beacon Press
KW  - Space and time
KW  - FAST
KW  - Imagination
KW  - Poetry
KW  - Space
N1  - Foreword to the 1994 edition. -- Foreword to the 1964 edition. -- 1 The house, from cellar to garret. The significance of the hut. -- 2 House and universe. -- 3 Drawers, chests and wardrobes. -- 4 Nests. -- 5 Shells. -- 6 Corners. -- 7 Miniature. -- 8 Intimate immensity. -- 9 The dialectics of outside and inside. -- 10 The phenomenology of roundness
N2  - 'In poetry and in folktale, in modern psychology and modern ornithology, Bachelard finds the bits and pieces of evidence he weaves into his argument that the house is a nest for dreaming, a shelter for imagining. Beyond his startling, unsettling illuminations of criminal cellars and raisin-smelling cabinets, his insistence that people need houses in order to dream, in order to imagine, remains one of the most unnerving, most convincing arguments in Western philosophy.' -- Foreword to the 1994 ed
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hm031/93027874.html
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