II International Conference on Literature, Architecture and Urban Space (LITERATURE, ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN SPACE 2018)

Topics

• Imagery Places
• Fictional Spaces
• Utopia and Dystopia Remembered
• Descibing Space
• Interior and Literature
• Rhetoric, metaphors and architecture
• Textual spaces / spatial texts
• Space and emotion
• Mapping the city
• The language of built space
• Form, representation, and poetry
• Icons and meaning
• The interrelations between literary characters and real/imaginary architectural structures and spaces
• Pacing and tension: the structures of literary texts (Literary Architecture)
• Writing Cityscapes
• Sound and Smell
• Visual cultures
• Human embodiment (architecture, gender, body) and Literary Studies
• Writers that build
• Writing the architect
• Reading Architecture
• Slums and urban landscapes
• Urban spaces and the politics of memory
• Spaces of remembering and forgetting
• Monuments, memorials, and collective memory
• The literature of ruins and ruination
• Texture, textuality, and architectonics
• Palimpsests: space, time, narrative
• Walking: narrative, memory, embodiment
• The spaces of the archive
• Spatial, Urban and Architectural Theory
• Travel Writing, literary places/spaces, and time
• Inter-Arts dialogues and poetics-policies of space
• Literature and architectural discourse
• Ecocriticism
• Built environments in literature and in the Visual Arts
• Architectural Humanities
• Architectural culture
• Regionalism
• Architectural Hermeneutics
• Haunted spaces and the modern unheimlich
• Gothic architecture and literature
• Literary and Architectural (Post)Modernisms
• Theories of the Everyday Life
• Narrating colonial and postcolonial spaces/structures
• Non-places and the cultures of modernity
• Cultural- and Psychogeography
• Dwelling and Modernism