The Poetics of Space

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By (author): "Maria Jolas, John R. Stilgoe, Étienne Gilson, Gaston Bachelard"
Publish Date: 1957
The Poetics of Space
ISBN0807064734
ISBN139780807064733
AsinThe Poetics of Space
Original titleLa poétique de l'espace
Since its first publication in English in 1964, French philosopher Gaston Bachelard's Poetics of Space remains one of the most appealing and lyrical explorations of home. Bachelard takes us on a journey, from cellar to attic, to show how our perceptions of houses and other shelters shape our thoughts, memories, and dreams."A magical book. . . . The Poetics of Space is a prism through which all worlds from literary creation to housework to aesthetics to carpentry take on enhanced-and enchanted-significances. Every reader of it will never see ordinary spaces in ordinary ways. Instead the reader will see with the soul of the eye, the glint of Gaston Bachelard." -from the new foreword by John R. Stilgoe