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  <title><![CDATA[The Poetics of Space]]></title>
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  <default_description>This is a deep, magical, densely captivating book about space, our homes, how we live in them, and how dwellings and space affect us; it is as much a book of philosophy as a work of serious literature. It requires careful, preferably leisurely reading, with the possibility of moments to pause and digest and re-read the words. It will change the way you look at your home and your life, providing a deeper, more insightful relationship with the spaces you occupy.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1960</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Gaston Bachelard]]></name>
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  <date_added>Mon Feb 11 14:15:29 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've failed to explain Bachelard to so many people by now that I should know better. I should write some sort of meta-review/hymn/grocery list here, but I'm afraid. I'm afraid to wash the freaking hem of this book.<br/><br/>Probably the best thing I can say about The Poetics of Space is that, in t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15175099">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was thinking of how to explain why I love reading Bachelard so much, and the best I can come up with for now is my love for his unusually deep way of thinking. This book, like others I have read of his, delves into the poetry of experience. In this book he approached space, as in the places that s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33781017">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Fri Nov 23 19:43:21 -0800 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[   I can understand why so many people consider <u>The Poetics of Space</u> to be such an important book, but I found it rather uneven.  The most interesting section, far and away, is the introduction.  Bachelard begins the book by laying out his theory of the poetic image.  Unlike metaphor, which is merel...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7286999">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I spent a lazy day on Cape Breton, swinging in a hammock beside a still, lily-covered pond, reading the Poetics of Space twice in a row. I read parts of this in grad school for a paper on Moby Dick, and had always wanted to get back to it. Bachelard comes across as such a genial old grandpa--somebod...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4434233">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="24609302">
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  <read_at>Fri Sep 19 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Jun 16 07:53:35 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I definitely feel that I got stronger as a writer as a result of the time I put into reading this book. Bachelard claims to, and in most cases succeeds in, examining the &quot;dialectical shadings&quot; of all manner of things associated with home: cabinets, shelves, nooks, crannies, dressers and mo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24609302">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="49925474">
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  <date_added>Fri Mar 20 20:58:10 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Mar 20 21:17:26 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Magical and inspiring. Gave me the idea for the next class I want to teach. Teaching is all about creating space. Here's what I wrote in my blog <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://gettingmessy.typepad.com">www.gettingmessy.com</a> about creating space in teaching: <br/>Teaching for me is all about creating deep, fertile environments for learning. In fact, I have...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49925474">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="32853137">
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  <date_added>Sun Sep 14 12:06:07 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[My hopes for an intelligent reading of intimate and public spaces were squashed by Bachelard's constant quoting of Rilke and endless pages about snails in their shells. The constant comparisons between psychology, psychoanalysis and phenomenology became tedious as soon as I realized phenomenology wo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32853137">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[So far, the major insight seems to be that in so far as we grow up in similar environments, we will have similar internal landscapes--and thus be susceptible to similar images. Ah. Well, it's nice to have a theory about the efficacy of poetic images, and it's a convincing theory. <br/>But Bachelard'...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70246086">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've never really decided how I really feel about this text.  Part of me knows it's total bullshit but another part of me wants to believe in it and enjoy the ridiculous, quasi-academic frenchitude.  Maybe they're not mutually exclusive ;)]]></body>
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    <review id="12443278">
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    <body><![CDATA[Inspired, meaningful ruminations on dwellings, spaces.  Illuminates how profoundly homes and spaces impart themselves on our imaginations, memories, experiences, daydreams ... a path to understanding, evolving. ]]></body>
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    <review id="55798138">
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  <read_at>Tue May 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Tue May 12 09:14:26 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is a distillation of how our imaginations are formed and extended along the lines of the spaces we inhabit.  I loved the passage on shelters, the way they keep us warm and safe and encourage imaginative growth. Bachelard notes that we are warm and toasty in our homes because it's cold outs...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55798138">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="38978473">
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 19 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I honestly tried to read this-- and I finish pretty much everything I read-- but the pretentious tone became more and more of a hindrance.  The ideas Bachelard were dealing with could have been really interesting, especially for someone like myself who loves reading poetry and reading about poetry. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38978473">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="25727644">
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  <read_at>Fri Aug 29 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[So much space to explore! It was a long journey to finish this book. There is so much to digest. It is a book to read at various times to remind us of how we might experience this world through our senses and the places we dwell. Live in a house? Collect shells? Ever hide in a closet? Go through you...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25727644">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved this book and would have given it more stars if I understood it better, or rather, took greater pleasure from what I understood. I love the way Bachelard approaches the idea of home/container/shell/space from so many angles, but he's a philosopher and thus speaks like one, meaning, I only re...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45562251">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 30 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[An utterly joyful discussion of the spaces in and around which we live, the book attempts to unveil these spaces in so far as their being is referable to the constitutive vitality of art and poetry - e.g. the poetic image.  Bachelard treats the being of such spaces qua poetic imagery as ontologicall...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10233577">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="54529890">
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    <body><![CDATA[If you ever wanted a complex explanation on phenomenology then this is the book for you. It looks at the heart of the semantic whether it be in language or art. This book has a secret in every sentence and divulges the truth slowly but satisfactorily. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A great introduction to phenomenology, beautiful and clear passages illustrating our internal understanding of various (and loosely spatial) concepts.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of my favourite books. It made me explore my inner connection with the physical world. I have read and re-read this book many times. A must read.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Just read the first five chapters or so, the rest you can leave.  Seminal work on the subject, everyone references it and with good reason.]]></body>
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