Geocriticism: Mapping the Spaces of Literature

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dc.contributor.authorTally, Robert T., Jr.
dc.date.accessioned2009-11-15T10:19:23Z
dc.date.available2012-02-24T10:19:23Z
dc.date.issued2009-10
dc.description.abstractLiterature 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.departmentEnglish
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dc.identifier.citationTally, 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.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10877/3926
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherJohn Hopkins University Press
dc.sourceL'Espirit Créateur: The International Quarterly of French and Francophone Studies, Fall 2009, Vol. 49, No. 3: 134.
dc.subjectliterary theory
dc.subjectliterary criticism
dc.subjectgeography
dc.subjectmodern literature
dc.subjectpostmodernism
dc.subjectgeocriticism
dc.subjectliterary cartography
dc.subjectEnglish
dc.titleGeocriticism: Mapping the Spaces of Literature
dc.typeReview

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