Archetype, Architecture, and the Writer

• Introduction1. Ibsen: The Master Builder-Emptiness, an Architectural Archetype2. Maeterlinck: The Intruder and Interior-An Architectural Archetype of Introversion3. James: "The Jolly Corner"-The Entrapped Shadow in the Archetypal House4. Ansky: "The Tower of Rome"-An Architectural Archetype of the Self-Made Man5. Kafka: The Castle-The Archetypal Land Surveyor6. Lorca: The House of Bernarda Alba-A Hermaphroditic Martriarchate7. Borges: "The Library of Babel"- The Archetypal Hexagonal Gallery8. Fuentes: "In a Flemish Garden"-A Parapsychological Happening in an Architectural Construct9. Wang Shih-Fu: The Romance of the Western Chamber-The Architectonic Archetype10. Mishima: The Temple of the Golden Pavilion-An Archetypal Feminine Sun and an Archetypal Masculine MoonConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

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