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9780230120808
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9781283439893
Content:
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.
Content:
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. Geocritical Explorations provides a succinct overview of geocriticism and a point of departure for further study
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Cover; Geocritical Explorations: Space, Place, and Mapping in Literary and Cultural Studies; Contents; Foreword; Notes; Acknowledgments; Introduction: On Geocriticism; Notes; Part I: Geocriticism in Theory and Practice; Chapter 1: Geocriticism, Geopoetics, Geophilosophy, and Beyond; Theoretical Orientations; Situating Westphal's Geocriticism; The Limits of Geocriticism; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 2: The Presencing of Place in Literature: Toward an Embodied Topopoetic Mode of Reading; The Presencing of the Physical World in Language; The Presencing of Place and Earth
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Examples of Topopoetic AppreciationConclusion; Notes; Part II: Places, Spaces, and Texts; Chapter 3: Redrawing the Map: An Interdisciplinary Geocritical Approach to Australian Cultural Narratives; Geocritical Traditions: Literary Geography, Film Geography, and Traditions of Spatial Enquiry in Australian Literary, Film, and Theater Studies; Geocriticism, Interdisciplinarity, and (Re)mediated Geographies: A Cultural Atlas of Australia; Mashing Up the Map: Digital Cartography and Geocriticism in Practice; Notes
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Chapter 4: Textual Forests: The Representation of Landscape in Latin American NarrativesA Wealth Repository; A Virgin at First Glance; The Garden of Eden; The Curse of God; The Colonial Montage of Indianness; Living Images; Notes; Chapter 5: Land of Racial Confluence and Spatial Accessibility: Claude McKay's Sense of Mediterranean Place; Notes; Chapter 6: The Shores of Aphrodite's Island: Cyprus and European Travel Memory, 1600-1700; Travel Writing and Geocriticism; Memories of Aphrodite; Aphrodite on the Map; Conclusion; Notes
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Chapter 7: Jefferson's Ecologies of Exception: Geography, Race, and American Empire in the Age of GlobalizationMapping Precedes Ecology: The Jeffersonian Vision; Racial Ecologies and the Formation of a Fractured Body Politic; Geographical Hegemony: A Vision of the Future; Conclusion: Notes toward a Global Eco-Imperial Empire; Notes; Part III: Transgressions, Movements, and Border Crossings; Chapter 8: Geopolitics, Landscape, and Guilt in Nineteenth-Century Colonial Literature; The Settler Victim on His Homestead; The Inevitable Colony; The Defensive Posture; Conclusion; Notes
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Chapter 9: "Amid all the maze, uproar, and novelty": The Limits of Other-Space in Sister CarrieThe Conventions of Rail Sociability; Theaters, Parades, and Restaurants; The Role of Discipline and Control; The Novel and the World; Notes; Chapter 10: Furrowing the Soil with His Pen: Derek Walcott's Topography of the English Countryside; Notes; Chapter 11: Global Positioning from Spain: Mapping Identity in African American Narratives of Travel; Challenging the Global Imaginary: Spain and the Trans-Mediterranean; Individual Identification: The Moor's Return
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Recalculating: GPS as a Metaphor for Identity Construction
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Geocritical Explorations Space, Place, and Mapping in Literary and Cultural Studies
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Geocritical explorations New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011 ISBN 9780230120808
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0230120806
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
Literatur
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Landschaft
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Raum
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Kulturwissenschaften
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Literaturwissenschaft
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Spatial turn
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