... a world, furnished as much as possible, down to the slightest detail." In his case, this required committing him to a specific date, reading architectural plans and registers of the holdings of medieval libraries, and even counting the steps in a fourteenth-century stairway. Eco's Postscript is also a manifesto proclaiming the ... decipher. Like all other medieval art forms, architecture was believed not only to represent a higher reality but also to teach a moral lesson. And what is taught by the structures at this Benedictine abbey? Reading the site plan of the abbey in conjunction wi...

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... . It also serves as a main theme in the novel as well as the form of the novel. While analyzing this novel, there are many ways of looking at it. One literary lens in particular can easily be seen by an individual throughout House Of Leaves. The formalist lens is one's own opinion on a subject based on previous knowledge, ideas, and beliefs ... as not only a theme, but a form. Natalie says in her article that "Despite the unheimlich quality of the novel, it's roots can be traced back to familiar themes and important literary predecessors, most notably, Jorge Luis Borges."" She continues ...

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