Robert T. Tally Jr. – författare

Following the spatial turn in the humanities and social sciences, Spatial Literary Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Space, Geography, and the Imagination offers a wide range of essays that reframe or transform contemporary criticism by focusing attention, in various ways, on the dynamic relations among space, place, and literature. These essays reflect upon the representation of space and place, whether in the real world, in imaginary universes, or in those hybrid zones where fiction meets reality. Working within or alongside related approaches, such as geocriticism, literary geography, and the spatial humanities, these essays examine the relationship between literary spatiality and different genres or media, such as film or television. The contributors to Spatial Literary Studies draw upon diverse critical and theoretical traditions in disclosing, analyzing, and exploring the significance of space, place, and mapping in literature and in the world, thus making new textual geographies and literary cartographies possible.

Following the spatial turn in the humanities and social sciences, Spatial Literary Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Space, Geography, and the Imagination offers a wide range of essays that reframe or transform contemporary criticism by focusing attention, in various ways, on the dynamic relations among space, place, and literature. These essays reflect upon the representation of space and place, whether in the real world, in imaginary universes, or in those hybrid zones where fiction meets reality. Working within or alongside related approaches, such as geocriticism, literary geography, and the spatial humanities, these essays examine the relationship between literary spatiality and different genres or media, such as film or television. The contributors to Spatial Literary Studies draw upon diverse critical and theoretical traditions in disclosing, analyzing, and exploring the significance of space, place, and mapping in literature and in the world, thus making new textual geographies and literary cartographies possible.

Is the world a place? As its inhabitants, we belong to the world, with its increasingly interconnected systems and cultures, but the cosmopolitanism of our daily lives is often hidden from view. In this innovative study, Robert T. Tally Jr. challenges our fundamental understanding of what constitutes the “world” in an age of shifting spatial boundaries.

The conception of the “world” profoundly influences the ways we imagine space and place, and the negotiation of worldly spaces presents challenges to traditional means of mapping or making sense of one’s place. Indeed, the timing of the “spatial turn” correlates with an enhanced consideration of processes and effects of globalization, which in turn has led to a dramatic increase in awareness of world literature. These phenomena engender a more cosmopolitan character to all aspects of human experience, along with a dialectical counterpart seen in the retrenchment of various nationalisms or greater emphases on local cultural formations. All of which pose challenges to the already vexing crisis of representation in late capitalist postmodernity and its accompanying anxieties. Geocritical Cosmopolitanism: Space, Literature, and the Sense of the Global confronts problems associated with mapping this world-system in relation to our understanding and experience of spatiality, intercultural dialogue, and cosmopolitanism in an era of ever more complex processes of globalization.

This is essential reading for readers interested in world literature, globalization, urban studies, geocriticism, and the spatial humanities more broadly.

Is the world a place? As its inhabitants, we belong to the world, with its increasingly interconnected systems and cultures, but the cosmopolitanism of our daily lives is often hidden from view. In this innovative study, Robert T. Tally Jr. challenges our fundamental understanding of what constitutes the “world” in an age of shifting spatial boundaries.

The conception of the “world” profoundly influences the ways we imagine space and place, and the negotiation of worldly spaces presents challenges to traditional means of mapping or making sense of one’s place. Indeed, the timing of the “spatial turn” correlates with an enhanced consideration of processes and effects of globalization, which in turn has led to a dramatic increase in awareness of world literature. These phenomena engender a more cosmopolitan character to all aspects of human experience, along with a dialectical counterpart seen in the retrenchment of various nationalisms or greater emphases on local cultural formations. All of which pose challenges to the already vexing crisis of representation in late capitalist postmodernity and its accompanying anxieties. Geocritical Cosmopolitanism: Space, Literature, and the Sense of the Global confronts problems associated with mapping this world-system in relation to our understanding and experience of spatiality, intercultural dialogue, and cosmopolitanism in an era of ever more complex processes of globalization.

This is essential reading for readers interested in world literature, globalization, urban studies, geocriticism, and the spatial humanities more broadly.

Although treated as two distinct schools of thought, ecocriticism and geocriticism have both placed emphasis on the lived environment, whether through social or natural spaces. For the first time, this interdisciplinary collection of essays addresses the complementary and contested aspects of these approaches to literature, culture, and society.