Literature and Geography The Writing of Space throughout History 1st edition by Emmanuelle Peraldo ISBN 1443885487 978-1443885485

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ISBN 10: 1443885487

ISBN 13: 978-1443885485

Author: Emmanuelle Peraldo

In a period marked by the Spatial Turn, time is not the main category of analysis any longer. Space is. It is now considered as a central metaphor and topos in literature, and literary criticism has seized space as a new tool. Similarly, literature turns out to be an ideal field for geography. This book examines the cross-fertilization of geography and literature as disciplines, languages and methodologies. In the past two decades, several methods of analysis focusing on the relationship and interconnectedness between literature and geography have flourished. Literary cartography, literary geography and geocriticism (Westphal, 2007, and Tally, 2011) have their specificities, but they all agree upon the omnipresence of space, place and mapping at the core of analysis. Other approaches like ecocriticism (Buell, 2001, and Garrard, 2004), geopoetics (White, 1994), geography of literature (Moretti, 2000), studies of the inserted map (Ljunberg, 2012, and Pristnall and Cooper, 2011) and narrative cartography have likewise drawn attention to space. Literature and Geography: The Writing of Space Throughout History, following an international conference in Lyon bringing together literary academics, geographers, cartographers and architects in order to discuss literature and geography as two practices of space, shows that literature, along with geography, is perfectly valid to account for space. Suggestions are offered here from all disciplines on how to take into account representations and discourses since texts, including literary ones, have become increasingly present in the analysis of geographers.

Table of contents: 

1. Introduction: Literature, Geography, and the Writing of Space
2. Space as a Narrative Construct
3. The Concept of Place in Ancient and Classical Literatures
4. Medieval Literature and the Mapping of Space
5. Renaissance to Enlightenment: Expanding Horizons
6. Modern Literature and the Urban Landscape
7. Postcolonial Geographies in Literature
8. The Globalization of Space in Contemporary Literature
9. Theoretical Perspectives on Geography and Literature
10. Conclusion: The Future of Space in Literary Studies

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