The Routledge handbook of literature and space / edited by Robert T. Tally Jr.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tally, Robert T., Jr., editor.

Class of 1953 Fund.

Series:

Routledge handbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Space in literature.

Geography in literature.

Space and time in literature.

Space (Architecture) in literature.

Personal space in literature.

Literature--History and criticism--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Handbooks and manuals.

Physical Description:

xvi, 375 pages ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2017.

Summary:

The "spatial turn" in literary studies is transforming the way we think of the field. The Routledge Handbook of Literature and Space maps the key areas of spatiality within literary studies, offering a comprehensive overview but also pointing towards new and exciting directions of study. The interdisciplinary and global approach provides a thorough introduction and includes thirty-two essays on topics such as: Spatial theory and practice, Critical methodologies, Work sites, Cities and the geography of urban experience, Maps, territories, readings. The contributors to this volume demonstrate how a variety of romantic, realist, modernist, and postmodernist narratives represent the changing social spaces of their world, and of our own world system today. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I Spatial theory and practice 7

1 In, of, out, with, and through: new perspectives in literary geography / Marc Brosseau Brosseau, Marc 9

2 Critical literary geography / Andrew Thacker Thacker, Andrew 28

3 Senses of place / Neal Alexander Alexander, Neal 39

4 Inventions of space: Deleuze between concept and event / Tom Conley Conley, Tom

5 Phenomenology, place, and the spatial turn / Eric Prieto Prieto, Eric 60

6 Spatializing practices at the intersections: representations and productions of spaces / Gerhard van den Heever Heever, Gerhard van den 70

Part II Critical methodologies 83

7 Literary geography and the digital: the emergence of neogeography / Peta Mitchell Mitchell, Peta 85

8 Reading as mapping / Christina Ljungberg Ljungberg, Christina 95

9 Sound and rhythm in literary space-time / Sheila Hones Hones, Sheila 106

10 Elizabeth Bishop in and out of Place: a topopoetic approach / Tim Cresswell Cresswell, Tim 114

11 Literature across scales / Hsuan L. Hsu Hsu, Hsuan L. 125

12 Digital literary cartographies: mapping British Romanticism / David Cooper Cooper, David 135

13 Literature and land surveying / Sarah Luria Luria, Sarah 148

Part III Worksites 157

14 Atopia/non-place / Siobhan Carroll Carroll, Siobhan 159

15 Heterotopias: the possible and real in Foucault, Beckett, and Calvino / Amanda Dennis Dennis, Amanda 168

16 Dreams, memories, longings: the dimension of projected places in fiction / Barbara Piatti Piatti, Barbara 179

17 Imaginative regions / Juha Ridanpää Ridanpää, Juha 187

18 Neighbourhoods: thick description in the city / Julie Sanders Sanders, Julie 195

19 Islands: literary geographies of possession, separation, and transformation / James Kneale Kneale, James 204

20 Island spatialities / Johannes Riquet Riquet, Johannes 214

Part IV Cities and the geography of urban experience 231

21 The city novel: measuring referential, spatial, linguistic, and temporal distances / Lieven Ameel Ameel, Lieven 233

22 From the city of London to the desert island: Defoe and the writing of space and place / Emmanuelle Peraldo Peraldo, Emmanuelle 242

23 The speculative fictional mapping of literary Johannesburg's spaces in Beukes's Zoo dry and Grey's The Mall / Irikidzayi Manase Manase, Irikidzayi 251

24 Spaces of Difference in Subterranean Toronto / Amy Lavender Harris Harris, Amy Lavender 261

25 On this spot: materialism, memory, and the politics of absence in Greenwich Village / Elayne Tobin Tobin, Elayne 273

26 The following is an account of what happened: plot, space, and the art of shadowing / Jean-François Duclos Duclos, Jean-François 280

Part V Maps, territories, readings 289

27 From the spatial turn to the spacetime-vitalist turn: Mahjoub's Navigation of a Rainmaker and Owuor's Dust / Russell West-Pavlov West-Pavlov, Russell 291

28 Environmental determinism and American literature: historicizing geography and form / Rebecca Walsh Walsh, Rebecca 303

29 Mapping without maps: memory and cartography in Las Casas's Very Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies / Ricardo Padrón Padrón, Ricardo 314

30 Joycean chronotopography: Homer, Dante, Ulysses / Charles Trains Trains, Charles 323

31 Intellectual cartographies of the Cold War: Latin American visitors to the People's Republic of China, 1952-1958 / Rosario Hubert Hubert, Rosario 337

32 Feminist geocritical activism: Natalie Barney's writing of women's spaces into women's places / Amy D. Wells Wells, Amy D. 349.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1953 Fund.

ISBN:

9781138816350

1138816353

OCLC:

952226799