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The Alchemy of Space: A Translation

Lamb, Elizabeth T
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1490701723931841

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2017, MARCH, University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning: Architecture.
Literature builds whimsical lands of the conceptual, worlds which merge the known and the unknown. Architecture is a tectonic manipulation, working to conceal and reveal the necessary information needed to grasp the whole, which sharing similar narrative strategies as literature. This thesis aims to unearth the existing relationships between architecture and the text by examining translations across media. Meaning derived from a text allows for the capacity of expression to permeate traditional material barriers, taking away the dividing line between the disciplines of literature and the visual arts. In the world of Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist, the reader and Santiago, the protagonist, seek out a pilgrimage route given in a dream. Guided by an invisible force, the elements, and a universal language of the metaphysical realm, they search for and discover a new perspective in the magical realism text of The Alchemist. This thesis serves as a pilgrimage of growth, questioning the perception of spatial creation and meaning through our lens of the literature using themes and narrative construction strategies from within the text of the unnatural narrative.
Elizabeth Riorden, M.Arch. (Committee Chair)
Aarati Kanekar, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
93 p.
Architecture
The Alchemist; Magical Realism; Translation; Pilgrimage

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  • Lamb, E. T. (2017). The Alchemy of Space: A Translation [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1490701723931841

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Lamb, Elizabeth. The Alchemy of Space: A Translation. 2017. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1490701723931841.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Lamb, Elizabeth. "The Alchemy of Space: A Translation." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1490701723931841

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