Geocriticism: Mapping the Spaces of Literature
dc.contributor.author | Tally, Robert T., Jr. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2009-11-15T10:19:23Z | |
dc.date.available | 2012-02-24T10:19:23Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2009-10 | |
dc.description.abstract | Literature abounds with the description and exploration of spaces. The writer maps the world, combining a representation of real places with the imaginary space of fiction. In some cases, what I have elsewhere called literary cartography serves to map a well known space (e.g., Dostoevsky’s St. Petersburg or Twain’s Mississippi River); in others, the places mapped may be wholly imaginary (More’s Utopia or Tolkien’s Middle Earth). Most often, the two combine, as the literary representation of a seemingly real place is never the purely mimetic image of that space. In a sense, all writing partakes in a form of cartography, since even the most realistic map does not truly depict the space, but, like literature, figures it forth in a complex skein of imaginary relations. | |
dc.description.department | English | |
dc.format | Text | |
dc.format.extent | 1 page | |
dc.format.medium | 1 file (.pdf) | |
dc.identifier.citation | Tally, R. T. (2009). Geocriticism: Mapping the spaces of literature. L'Espirit Créateur: The International Quarterly of French and Francophone Studies, 49(3): 134. | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10877/3926 | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.publisher | John Hopkins University Press | |
dc.source | L'Espirit Créateur: The International Quarterly of French and Francophone Studies, Fall 2009, Vol. 49, No. 3: 134. | |
dc.subject | literary theory | |
dc.subject | literary criticism | |
dc.subject | geography | |
dc.subject | modern literature | |
dc.subject | postmodernism | |
dc.subject | geocriticism | |
dc.subject | literary cartography | |
dc.title | Geocriticism: Mapping the Spaces of Literature | |
dc.type | Review |
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