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Record Nr.

UNINA9910466342203321

Autore

Finch Jason

Titolo

Deep locational criticism : imaginative place in literary research and teaching / / Jason Finch

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , [2016]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (265 p.)

Collana

FILLM Studies in languages and literatures, , 2213-428X ; ; 3

Disciplina

809/.93358

Soggetti

Place (Philosophy) in literature

Literature - Research

Setting (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

Deep Locational Criticism; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Series editor's preface ; Acknowledgements; List of images and maps; 1. Introduction; A distinctive activity; Organization of the work; Preliminaries; Place versus space? Casey and Certeau; Contextualism and meta-contextualism; Fascism and the problem of place; Working principles; Inside and outside texts; Interactivity, interdependence and the lived body; Scale, limits, technologies; Topographic not synoptic; Place first; Not two but three; Terminology; The landscape alternative; The case for location

Imaginative placeExperience; Methodology ; A triad; Zooming; Scholarly, creative and cartographic resources; Summing up; 2. Applications in research and pedagogy; Locating two poets; Gwendolyn Brooks in "Bronzeville" and Chicago; Christina Rossetti in London; The intratextual landscape of a single work of literature: Bleak House; Hillis Miller and Dickens: A study in topographic criticism; Mapping novels in the head; A line running down through England; Two pedagogic forays into the decayed inner city; A Fulham novel: Photographs and cultural difference

Stages on one road: Gissing, Shaw, MorrisonGoing too far? Thomas Burke and the ethics of slum fiction; The East End after Burke; Second



stab; 8. Anti-place and multiple place in Beckett; Placed and unplaced writing?; London toponyms in Murphy: A board-game world; The madhouse of Murphy: Anti-place re-placed; Regions of "nameless things"; Turning the telescope on the without: The "manywheres" of Endgame; Conclusion: Toponyms, regions and categories of writer; Afterword; A-Z glossary of terms; List of references; Index; Deep Locational Criticism