Introduction

[Penrod, Diane]

Scott,
 
My dissertation in 1994 explored similar connections in American essays written after 1965 with contemporary architecture. You can look up my diss through Dissertation Abstracts at U Michigan. It's registered.
 
I'm just now getting back to this topic in my own research program, so I hope some of my suggestions will help you as well. I have a book chapter coming out next year discussing how architecture influences the writing process. People seem quite interested these days in architectonics -- certainly more now than in 1994.
 
Here's the best advice I can offer:
 
You'll probably do better looking at materials drawn from architecture. My first suggestion is to look at Jencks' The Language of Architecture. You might also want to look at Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown's Learning from Las Vegas. 
 
Yi-Fu Tuan's set of works may also be helpful to you. He is/was a geographer, but had a great understanding of the sense of place and its affect on people. Gaston Bachelard's book (title escapes me and it's at my campus office) might also be of some help. So too might Gerard Genette's work.
 
>From there, you'll find references listed that will direct your focus.
 
Good luck with your dissertation. I'm glad to see the relationships between architecture and language are finally being explored in greater depth.
 
Best,
 
Diane
 
Diane Penrod, PhD
Professor, Writing Arts
Site Director, National Writing Project at Rowan University
Graduate Program Advisor, MA in Writing
Rowan University
Glassboro NJ 08028
penrod at rowan.edu
856-256-4330
 
"Leap and the net will appear."
             -- Zen proverb
 
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Hello Friends,


My name is Scott Wilkerson, and I am an Assistant Professor of English in
the Department of  Humanities at the Columbus campus of Georgia Military
College. I am writing my dissertation on certain open questions in Charles
Olson's poetics of spatial architectonics. I am interested in the
logological space of language and the relationship between spatial grammar
and the structures of representation. I eagerly anticipate forming some good
scholarly relationships here, and I expect I shall also learn quite a lot
from the great minds here assembled.

Respectfully,

Scott Wilkerson
Humanities Assistant Professor
Humanities Coordinator
Georgia Military College
Columbus, Georgia
Research Associate,
Halawaukee Studio for the Arts





>From: Ian Roderick <iroderick at WLU.CA>
>Reply-To: The Discourse Studies List <DISCOURS at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG>
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>Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2006 20:51:55 -0400
>
>Dear list members,
>
>My name is Ian Roderick and I am an assistant professor in the
>Communication Studies department at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo,
>Ontario, Canada.
>
>I became quite interested in CDA and social semiotics during my MA studies
>but slipped away from it while writing my doctoral dissertation. I have 
>recently come to find myself interested in returning to a more systemic
>form of discourse analysis in my own research. Presently I am interested in
>representations of autonomous technologies (robotics, UAVs, intelligent
>agents, etc.) particularly in a military context but I also have a strong
>interest in public space and exhibitionary spaces, in particular. I also
>hang out on the Language of New Capitalism list.
>
>As well as an introductory course on mass communication and another in
>print communication, I teach a course entitled The Cultural Political
>Economy of the Theme Park and another I call The Operating System of War.
>
>I expect that this is a quiet time for the list but I hope to contribute
>when and where I can.
>
>best regards,
>
>Ian Roderick


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