Spatiality / Robert T. Tally Jr.
By: Tally, Robert T.
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BookSeries: New critical idiom: Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2013Description: x, 171 p. ; 21 cm.ISBN: 9780415664400 (pbk.); 9780415664394 (hardback); 9780203082881 (ebook).Subject(s): Literature, Modern -- History and criticism
| Space perception in literature | Geocriticism | Place (Philosophy) in literatureDDC classification: 809.9332 Summary: Spatiality has risen to become a key concept in literary and cultural studies, with critical focus on the 'spatial turn' presenting a new approach to the traditional literary analyses of time and history. Robert T. Tally Jr. explores differing aspects of the spatial in literary studies today, providing: An overview of the spatial turn across literary theory, from historicism and postmodernism to postcolonialism and globalization. Introductions to the major theorists of spatiality, including Michel Foucault, David Harvey, Edward Soja, Erich Auerbach, Georg Lukaćs, and Fredric Jameson. Analysis of critical perspectives on spatiality, such as the writer as map-maker, literature of the city and urban space, and the concepts of literary geography, cartographics and geocriticism. This clear and engaging study presents readers with a thought provoking and illuminating guide to the literature and criticism of 'space'. -- Back cover.
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Spatiality has risen to become a key concept in literary and cultural studies, with critical focus on the 'spatial turn' presenting a new approach to the traditional literary analyses of time and history.
Robert T. Tally Jr. explores differing aspects of the spatial in literary studies today, providing:
An overview of the spatial turn across literary theory, from historicism and postmodernism to postcolonialism and globalization Introductions to the major theorists of spatiality, including Michel Foucault, David Harvey, Edward Soja, Erich Auerbach, Georg Lukács, and Fredric Jameson Analysis of critical perspectives on spatiality, such as the writer as map-maker, literature of the city and urban space, and the concepts of literary geography, cartographics and geocriticism.This clear and engaging study presents readers with a thought provoking and illuminating guide to the literature and criticism of 'space'.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Spatiality has risen to become a key concept in literary and cultural studies, with critical focus on the 'spatial turn' presenting a new approach to the traditional literary analyses of time and history. Robert T. Tally Jr. explores differing aspects of the spatial in literary studies today, providing: An overview of the spatial turn across literary theory, from historicism and postmodernism to postcolonialism and globalization. Introductions to the major theorists of spatiality, including Michel Foucault, David Harvey, Edward Soja, Erich Auerbach, Georg Lukaćs, and Fredric Jameson. Analysis of critical perspectives on spatiality, such as the writer as map-maker, literature of the city and urban space, and the concepts of literary geography, cartographics and geocriticism. This clear and engaging study presents readers with a thought provoking and illuminating guide to the literature and criticism of 'space'. -- Back cover.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Series editor's preface (p. xi)
- Acknowledgements (p. xii)
- Introduction: You are here (p. 1)
- 1 The spatial turn (p. 11)
- Historical perspectives (p. 17)
- The rise of cartography (p. 20)
- Space in modern philosophy (p. 27)
- The return of history (p. 30)
- Things fall apart (p. 34)
- The new spatiality implicit in the postmodern (p. 37)
- The spaces of literature (p. 42)
- 2 Literary cartography (p. 44)
- The writer as mapmaker (p. 48)
- Genre and the literary chronotope (p. 54)
- Form and the representation of reality (p. 59)
- Anxiety and a sense of place (p. 64)
- An aesthetic of cognitive mapping (p. 67)
- Narrative and social space (p. 75)
- 3 Literary geography (p. 79)
- The spirit of a place (p. 81)
- The country and the city (p. 86)
- The centrality of the periphery (p. 90)
- The perambulations of the flâneur (p. 95)
- Novel spaces for literary history (p. 99)
- Mapping the text (p. 108)
- 4 Geocritic ism (p. 112)
- A poetics of space (p. 114)
- The production of space (p. 116)
- Spaces of power (p. 119)
- The long poem of walking (p. 128)
- Engendering spaces (p. 132)
- Nomad thought and geophilosophy (p. 135)
- A geocentric approach (p. 140)
- Conclusion: Other spaces (p. 146)
- Glossary (p. 155)
- Bibliography (p. 161)
- Index (p. 169)