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Cosmopolitanism and Place
Spatial Forms in Contemporary Anglophone Literature
Av E. Johansen
Inbunden, 2014
635 kr
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Cosmopolitanism and Place considers the way contemporary Anglophone fiction connects global identities with the experience in local places. Looking at fiction set in metropolises, regional cities, and rural communities, this book argues that the everyday experience of these places produces forms of …
Literary Cartographies
Spatiality, Representation, and Narrative
Inbunden, 2014
1513 kr
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Exploring narrative mapping in a wide range of literary works, ranging from medieval romance to postmodern science fiction, this volume argues for the significance of spatiality in comparative literary studies. Contributors demonstrate how a variety of narratives represent the changing social …
Literature’s Sensuous Geographies
Postcolonial Matters of Place
Av S. Moslund
Inbunden, 2015
635 kr
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Using place studies within a postcolonial context, this study explores the sense-aesthetic dimensions in literature such as smell, sound, etc. that often challenge the rationalizing logic of modernity. Through close readings of writers such as Conrad and Coetzee, Moslund invites scholars to shift …
Geoparsing Early Modern English Drama
Inbunden, 2015
632 kr
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Geo-spatial identity and early Modern European drama come together in this study of how cultural or political attachments are actively mediated through space. Matei-Chesnoiu traces the modulated representations of rivers, seas, mountains, and islands in sixteenth-century plays by Shakespeare, …
Spatial Engagement with Poetry
Av H. Yeung
Inbunden, 2015
635 kr
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Drawing from a broad range of contemporary British poets, including Thomas Kinsella, Kathleen Jamie, and Alice Oswald, this study examines the inherently spatial and affective nature of our engagement with poetry. Adding to the expanding field of geocritical studies, Yeung specifically discusses …
Geocritical Legacies of Edward W. Said
Spatiality, Critical Humanism, and Comparative Literature
Av Kenneth A. Loparo, Robert T. Tally Jr. m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
635 kr
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Edward W. Said is considered one of the most influential literary and postcolonial theorists in the world. Affirming Said's multifaceted and enormous critical impact, this collection features essays that highlight the significance of Said's work for contemporary spatial criticism, comparative …
Spatiality and Symbolic Expression
On the Links between Place and Culture
Inbunden, 2015
635 kr
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In this volume, scholars from a wide range of fields within the humanities explore the links between space and place and their relation to cultural expression. This collection shows that a focus on the spatial can help elucidate important facets of symbolic expression and cultural production, …
Africa's Narrative Geographies
Charting the Intersections of Geocriticism and Postcolonial Studies
Av D. Crowley
Inbunden, 2015
635 kr
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Building on the emerging field of geocriticism, this book explores Africa's complex, dynamic literary landscapes, proffering new methods for understanding the geographies of African literature. Using both cultural geography and political ecology, Crowley offers fresh insights into key authors' …
Women and Domestic Space in Contemporary Gothic Narratives
The House as Subject
Av A. Soon
Inbunden, 2015
1388 kr
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Moving away from traditional studies of Gothic domesticity based on symbolism, Soon instead focuses on domestic space's material presence and the traces it leaves on the human subjects inhabiting it. Approaching novels and films such as Beloved and The Exorcist , this study intersects …
Ecocriticism and Geocriticism
Overlapping Territories in Environmental and Spatial Literary Studies
Av Robert T. Tally Jr., Christine M. Battista
Inbunden, 2016
1137 kr
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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 …
Reading the Past Across Space and Time
Receptions and World Literature
Av Brenda Deen Schildgen, Ralph Hexter
Inbunden, 2017
949 kr
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Featuring leading scholars in their fields, this book examines receptions of ancient and early modern literary works from around the world (China, Japan, Ancient Maya, Ancient Mediterranean, Ancient India, Ancient Mesopotamia) that have circulated globally across time and space (from East to West, …
Time, Literature, and Cartography After the Spatial Turn
The Chronometric Imaginary
Av Adam Barrows
Inbunden, 2016
1388 kr
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Time, Literature and Cartography after the Spatial Turn argues that the spatial turn in literary studies has the unexplored potential to reinvigorate the ways in which we understand time in literature. Drawing on new readings of time in a range of literary narratives, including Vladimir Nabokov’s …
Popular Fiction and Spatiality
Reading Genre Settings
Inbunden, 2016
1388 kr
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This volume moves the debate about literature and geography in a new direction by showing the significance of spatial settings in the enormous and complex field of popular fiction. Approaching popular genres as complicated systems of meaning, the collected essays model key theoretical and critical …
Hemingway’s Geographies
Intimacy, Materiality, and Memory
Inbunden, 2016
1074 kr
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This book draws on the tools of literary analysis and culturalgeography to investigate Ernest Hemingway's sophisticated construction ofphysical environments. In doing so, Laura Gruber Godfrey revises conventional approachesto Hemingway’s literary landscapes and provides insight about his …
Cosmopolitanism and Place
Spatial Forms in Contemporary Anglophone Literature
Av E. Johansen
Häftad, 2014
635 kr
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Cosmopolitanism and Place considers the way contemporary Anglophone fiction connects global identities with the experience in local places. Looking at fiction set in metropolises, regional cities, and rural communities, this book argues that the everyday experience of these places produces forms of …
Literature’s Sensuous Geographies
Postcolonial Matters of Place
Av S. Moslund
Häftad, 2015
635 kr
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Using place studies within a postcolonial context, this study explores the sense-aesthetic dimensions in literature such as smell, sound, etc. that often challenge the rationalizing logic of modernity. Through close readings of writers such as Conrad and Coetzee, Moslund invites scholars to shift …
Geoparsing Early Modern English Drama
Häftad, 2015
635 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Geo-spatial identity and early Modern European drama come together in this study of how cultural or political attachments are actively mediated through space. Matei-Chesnoiu traces the modulated representations of rivers, seas, mountains, and islands in sixteenth-century plays by Shakespeare, …
Spatial Engagement with Poetry
Av H. Yeung
Häftad, 2015
635 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Drawing from a broad range of contemporary British poets, including Thomas Kinsella, Kathleen Jamie, and Alice Oswald, this study examines the inherently spatial and affective nature of our engagement with poetry. Adding to the expanding field of geocritical studies, Yeung specifically discusses …
Geocritical Legacies of Edward W. Said
Spatiality, Critical Humanism, and Comparative Literature
Av Jr. Tally, Dr. Robert T., Kenneth A. Loparo m. fl.
Häftad, 2015
635 kr
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Edward W. Said is considered one of the most influential literary and postcolonial theorists in the world. Affirming Said's multifaceted and enormous critical impact, this collection features essays that highlight the significance of Said's work for contemporary spatial criticism, comparative …
Ecocriticism and Geocriticism
Overlapping Territories in Environmental and Spatial Literary Studies
Av Robert T. Tally Jr., Christine M. Battista
Häftad, 2016
886 kr
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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 …
Literary Cartographies
Spatiality, Representation, and Narrative
Häftad, 2016
1388 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Exploring narrative mapping in a wide range of literary works, ranging from medieval romance to postmodern science fiction, this volume argues for the significance of spatiality in comparative literary studies. Contributors demonstrate how a variety of narratives represent the changing social …
Reading the Past Across Space and Time
Receptions and World Literature
Av Brenda Deen Schildgen, Ralph Hexter
Häftad, 2020
635 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Featuring leading scholars in their fields, this book examines receptions of ancient and early modern literary works from around the world (China, Japan, Ancient Maya, Ancient Mediterranean, Ancient India, Ancient Mesopotamia) that have circulated globally across time and space (from East to West, …
Popular Fiction and Spatiality
Reading Genre Settings
Häftad, 2018
1388 kr
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This volume moves the debate about literature and geography in a new direction by showing the significance of spatial settings in the enormous and complex field of popular fiction. Approaching popular genres as complicated systems of meaning, the collected essays model key theoretical and critical …
Hemingway’s Geographies
Intimacy, Materiality, and Memory
Häftad, 2018
1074 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book draws on the tools of literary analysis and culturalgeography to investigate Ernest Hemingway's sophisticated construction ofphysical environments. In doing so, Laura Gruber Godfrey revises conventional approachesto Hemingway’s literary landscapes and provides insight about his …
Topographies of Caribbean Writing, Race, and the British Countryside
Inbunden, 2019
723 kr
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How do Caribbean writers see the British countryside? Do they feel included, ignored, marginalised? In Topographies of Caribbean Writing, Race, and the British Countryside, Joanna Johnson shows how writers like Derek Walcott, V.S. Naipaul, Jean Rhys, Grace Nichols, Andrea Levy, and Caryl Phillips …
Poe and Place
Häftad, 2018
401 kr
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This collection of fifteen original essays and one original poem explores the theme of “place” in the life, works, and afterlife of Edgar A. Poe (1809-1849). Poe and Place argues that “place” is an important critical category through which to understand this classic American author in new and …
Mapping Home in Contemporary Narratives
Häftad, 2019
568 kr
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By offering an analysis of the idea of home across the individual, interpersonal, social, and global scales, Mapping Home aims to show the extent to which self-concept is deeply tied to constructions of home in a globally mobile age. The epistemological link between dwelling as "knowing oneself" …
Cartographies of New York and Other Postwar American Cities
Art, Literature and Urban Spaces
Häftad, 2018
687 kr
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Cartographies of New York and Other Postwar American Cities: Art, Literature and Urban Spaces explores phenomena of urban mapping in the discourses and strategies of a variety of postwar artists and practitioners of space: Allan Kaprow, Claes Oldenburg, Vito Acconci, Gordon Matta-Clark, Robert …
Space, Place and Poetry in English and German, 1960–1975
Häftad, 2019
878 kr
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Space, Place and Poetry in English and German, 1960-1975 examines the work of Paul Celan, J. H. Prynne, Derek Mahon, Sarah Kirsch, Edwin Morgan and Ernst Jandl, bringing together postwar English- and German-language poetry and criticism on the theme of space, place and landscape. Nicola Thomas …
Poetics of Space and Place in Scottish Literature
Av Monika Szuba, Julian Wolfreys
Inbunden, 2019
1202 kr
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This book addresses the poetics of space and place in Scottish literature. Focusing chiefly on twentieth- and twenty-first century texts, with acknowledgement of historical and philosophical contexts, the essays address representation, narrative form, the work of the poetic, perception and …
