Spatiality / / Robert T. Tally Jr

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910462694503321
• Autore: Tally Robert T.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013
• ISBN: 0-203-08288-5; 1-283-84200-9; 1-136-18188-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (193 p.)
• Collana: The new critical idiom
• Disciplina: 809/.9332
• Soggetti: Literature, Modern - History and criticism; Space perception in literature; Geocriticism; Place (Philosophy) in literature; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Cover; Spatiality; Copyright Page; Contents; Series editor's preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: You are here; 1 The spatial turn; Historical perspectives; The rise of cartography; Space in modern philosophy; The return of history; Things fall apart; The new spatiality implicit in the postmodern; The spaces of literature; 2 Literary cartography; The writer as mapmaker; Genre and the literary chronotope; Form and the representation of reality; Anxiety and a sense of place; An aesthetic of cognitive mapping; Narrative and social space; 3 Literary geography; The spirit of a place; The country and the cityThe centrality of the periphery; The perambulations of the flâneur; Novel spaces for literary history; Mapping the text; 4 Geocriticism; A poetics of space; The production of space; Spaces of power; The long poem of walking; Engendering spaces; Nomad thought and geophilosophy; A geocentric approach; Conclusion: Other spaces; Glossary; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 globalizationIntroductions to the major theorists of spatiality, including Michel Foucault, David Harvey, Edward Soja, Erich Auerbach, Geor