Foreword by Rochelle Hendricks, Secretary of New Jersey Higher Education Preface and Organization of the Book Acknowledgments Chapter 1: Writers as Architects: Exploring Parallel Concepts in Architecture and Literature Chapter 2: A Meditation on Lines, Direction, Movement and Mass: The Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva Chapter 3: Light, Color and Space in Select Poems by Robert Hass Chapter 4: Glimpses of Proportion and Symmetry: F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby Chapter 5: Unraveling Texture in William Faulkner's Light in August Chapter 6: Toward Plumbing Architectural and Narrative Space in Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, "Soldier's Home", and "A Clean Well-Lighted Place" Chapter 7: Tension, Compression and Pacing in Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita and Pnin Chapter 8: Exploring Pattern and Rhythm: Alice Munro's "Dulse" and "Labor Day Dinner" Chapter 9: Appreciating Unity and Harmony in Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day Chapter 10: The Role of Order and Propriety in William Gass' In the Heart of the Heart of the Country Chapter 11: Investigating Balance in Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary and The First Sentimental Education References Index About the Author
