Grammars of approach : landscape, narrative, and the linguistic picturesque / Cynthia Wall.
Grammars of approach : landscape, narrative, and the linguistic picturesque / Cynthia Wall.
Grammars of approach : landscape, narrative, and the linguistic picturesque / Cynthia Wall.
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Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2019.
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G 2019/1509
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English
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xiii, 331 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
The architectural approach. The etymology of "approach" (n. s.) ; The concept of approach (n. s. and v.): the "ancient" and the "modern" lines ; The language of approach (v.): architectural and syntactical design ; The traveler's approach ; The novelist's approach -- The prepositional building. The...
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Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2019.
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Illinois
Date Published
2019.
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In Grammars of Approach, Cynthia Wall offers a close look at changes in perspective in spatial design, language, and narrative across the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries that involve, literally and psychologically, the concept of "approach." In architecture, the term "approach" changed in that period from a verb to a noun, coming to...
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Grammars of approach : landscape, narrative, and the linguistic picturesque / Cynthia Wall.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2019/1509
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74VKVBP2AZJy
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVBP2AZJy
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9780226467832 paperback alkaline paper
022646783X paperback alkaline paper
9780226467665 hardcover alkaline paper
022646766X hardcover alkaline paper
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700.46
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991024237519002626
