Johnny Rodger

The Hero Building

An Architecture of Scottish National Identity

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines architectural culture by studying a prominent selection of buildings, such as the Burns monuments in Alloway, Edinburgh and Kilmarnock.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 534g
• ISBN-13: 9781472452719
• ISBN-10: 1472452712
• Artikelnr.: 75439177

Autorenporträt

Johnny Rodger is Professor of Urban Literature at the Glasgow School of Art. His published work includes fiction such as The Auricle (1995) and Redundant (1998) and critical volumes like Contemporary Glasgow (Rutland Press, 1999), Gillespie Kidd & Coia 1956-87 (RIAS, 2007), Tartan Pimps: Gordon Brown, Margaret Thatcher and the New Scotland (2010), and The Red Cockatoo: James Kelman and the Art of Commitment (2011).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1 The Hero Building
Chapter 2 Prototype
Chapter 3 Romantic Poet - Enlightenment Poet
Chapter 4 The Athens of the North/Valhalla of the West
Chapter 5 Wizard of the North
Chapter 6 Baronial Revival and the National Wallace Monument
Chapter 7 National Poet - Poet of Humanity
Chapter 8 Aberration, Autism and Vanity
Chapter 9 The Fallen
Chapter 10 A Postmodern Proof
Chapter 11 Afterlife