Corridor: Media Architectures in American Fiction

This book offers a series of conceptually provocative readings that illuminate a hidden relationship between architectural space and modern American fiction. By looking at fictional descriptions of some of modernity's least remarkable structures, such as plumbing, ductwork, and airshafts, the author discovers a network of connections between corridors and novels, one that also sheds new light on the nature of modern media. The corridor is the dominant organizational structure in modern architecture, yet its various functions are taken for granted, and it tends to disappear from view. But even the most banal structures become strangely visible in the noisy communication systems of American fiction.

Author(s): Kate Marshall
Published: 2013
Categories: American fiction