Tally Jr. Literary Cartographies

Spatiality, Representation, and Narrative
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-137-44937-5
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 236 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies

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 spaces of their world.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tally Jr., Robert T.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Mapping Narratives; Robert T. Tally Jr. 1. What Lies Between?: Thinking Through Medieval Narrative Spatiality; Robert Allen Rouse 2. Plotting One's Position in Don Quijote : Literature and the Process of Cognitive Mapping; Jeanette E. Goddard 3. "Eyes that have dwelt on the past": Reading the Landscape of Memory in The Mill on the Floss ; Alice Tsay 4. Mapping Hardy and Brontë; Susan Cook 5. "She sought a spiritual heir": Cosmopolitanism and the Pre-suburban in Howards End ; Heather McNaugher 6. The Space of Russia in Joseph Conrad's Under Western Eyes ; John G. Peters 7. "History, Mystery, Leisure, Pleasure": Evelyn Waugh, Bruno Latour, and the Ocean Liner; Shawna Ross 8. To the South England, to the West Eternity: Mapping Boundlessness in Modern Scottish Fiction; Jenny Pyke 9. Leaving the Landscape: Mapping Elsewhereness in Canadian City Literature; Myles Chilton 10. Mapping Tokyo's "Empty Center" in Oyama's A Man with No Talents ; Barbara E. Thornbury 11. Mapping the Personal in Contemporary German Literature; Anne B. Wallen 12. Charting the Extraordinary: Sentient and Transontological Spaces; Rhona Trauvitch 13. On and Off the Map: Literary Narrative as Critique of Cartographic Reason; Derek Schilling

Über Autor(innen)

Myles Chilton, Nihon University, Japan Susan E. Cook, Southern New Hampshire University, USA Jeanette Goddard, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA Heather McNaugher, Chatham University, USA John G. Peters, University of North Texas, USA Jenny Pyke, Mount Holyoke College, USA Shawna Ross, Arizona State University, USA Robert Allen Rouse, University of British Columbia, Canada Derek Schilling, John Hopkins University, USA Barbara E. Thornbury, Temple University, USA Rhona Trauvitch, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA Alice Tsay, University of Michigan, USA Anne B. Wallen, University of Kansas, USA