Geocritical Explorations
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Geocritical Explorations

Space, Place, and Mapping in Literary and Cultural Studies

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Geocritical Explorations

Space, Place, and Mapping in Literary and Cultural Studies

About this book

In recent years the spatial turn in literary and cultural studies has opened up new ways of looking at the interactions among writers, readers, texts, and places. Geocriticism offers a timely new approach, andthis book presents an array of concrete examples or readings, which also reveal the broad range of geocritical practices.

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Information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2011
Print ISBN
9780230120808
eBook ISBN
9780230337930
Topic
Ciencias sociales
Subtopic
Antropología

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Geocritical Explorations: Space, Place, and Mapping in Literary and Cultural Studies
  3. Contents
  4. Foreword
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Introduction: On Geocriticism
  7. Part I: Geocriticism in Theory and Practice
  8. Chapter 1: Geocriticism, Geopoetics, Geophilosophy, and Beyond
  9. Chapter 2: The Presencing of Place in Literature: Toward an Embodied Topopoetic Mode of Reading
  10. Part II: Places, Spaces, and Texts
  11. Chapter 3: Redrawing the Map: An Interdisciplinary Geocritical Approach to Australian Cultural Narratives
  12. Chapter 4: Textual Forests: The Representation of Landscape in Latin American Narratives
  13. Chapter 5: Land of Racial Confluence and Spatial Accessibility: Claude McKay’s Sense of Mediterranean Place
  14. Chapter 6: The Shores of Aphrodite’s Island: Cyprus and European Travel Memory, 1600–1700
  15. Chapter 7: Jefferson’s Ecologies of Exception: Geography, Race, and American Empire in the Age of Globalization
  16. Part III: Transgressions, Movements, and Border Crossings
  17. Chapter 8: Geopolitics, Landscape, and Guilt in Nineteenth-Century Colonial Literature
  18. Chapter 9: “Amid all the maze, uproar, and novelty”: The Limits of Other-Space in Sister Carrie
  19. Chapter 10: Furrowing the Soil with His Pen: Derek Walcott’s Topography of the English Countryside
  20. Chapter 11: Global Positioning from Spain: Mapping Identity in African American Narratives of Travel
  21. Chapter 12: The Space of Transgression: A Geocritical Study of Albert Camus’s “The Adulterous Wife”
  22. Chapter 13: Affective Mapping in Lyric Poetry
  23. Contributors
  24. Index