![]() Have themselves become heterogeneous, transdisciplinary, and come In the production of place” (Luria 67), geocritical explorations Role of place in the life of literature, and the role of literature Literature and socio-political structures, in order to reveal “the Out the heterogeneity of global spaces, at the intersection between The last decades, geocritical approaches have taken centre stage inĬritical studies on an international level. New spatiality implicit in the postmodern” (418). ![]() “time-space compression”) and Fredric Jameson, who examines “the We encounter the groundbreaking ideas of David Harvey (such as In the postmodern context of cultural geographies, Mikhail Bakhtin, in the poetics of space delivered by Gastonīachelard, the poststructuralist geophilosophy of Gilles Deleuze andįélix Guattari, the postcolonial critique of Edward Said and Homiīhabha, and in the feminist theories developed by Gloria AnzaldúaĪnd Doreen Massey. “the production of space.” The origins of current spatialĪnalyses can also be traced back to the chronotopic inquiries of “heterotopologies” and by Henri Lefebvre’s Marxist critique of Path opened by Michel Foucault’s “archaeologies” and Reasserting the importance of spatiality in socio-cultural studies, a The spatial turn in the 1970s can be seen as a “big bang” Geocritical endeavour, as he explores, in a geocentered, multifocal,Īnd polysemantic manner, the “real-and-imagined spaces” (usingĮdward Soja’s terms) which are not confined to literature alone. These are the main issues addressed by Bertrand Westphal’s To, touches, smells, and tastes spaces” (Tally Jr., Geocriticalģ). Surveys, digs into, reads, and writes a place it looks at, listens In literature and literature in space, it “explores, seeks, Reveals the socio-cultural dynamics of the relationship between space Journal for Comparative Studies and Theoryįor formatted text, please download as pdf (upper right). Keywords: geocriticism, literary geography, spatial studies, transnational studies, World Literature. Our thematic issue gathers a diverse body of studies, each one of them advancing original approaches that employ comprehensive theoretical frameworks and different tools and perspectives, from symbolic geography and migrations studies to distant-reading and World Literature. The present introduction targets national, transnational, and global projects, aiming to integrate Romanian debates in a broader, international dialogue. ![]() Our main goal is to deliver a panoramic study engaging both traditional geocritical perspectives and contemporary transnational, quantitative, or digital studies that shaped the way in which we understand the notion of space and its literary functions. The present introduction aims to outline the major theoretical approaches of spatial studies, together with their most relevant inquiries and pursuing their many methodological ramifications. Download this as PDF Space in Literature and Literature in Space Marius Conkan & Daiana Gârdan ![]()
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