Geography And Literature

Author : Emmanuelle Peraldo
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781443887601

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Literature and Geography by Emmanuelle Peraldo Pdf

In a period marked by the Spatial Turn, time is not the main category of analysis any longer. Space is. It is now considered as a central metaphor and topos in literature, and literary criticism has seized space as a new tool. Similarly, literature turns out to be an ideal field for geography. This book examines the cross-fertilization of geography and literature as disciplines, languages and methodologies. In the past two decades, several methods of analysis focusing on the relationship and interconnectedness between literature and geography have flourished. Literary cartography, literary geography and geocriticism (Westphal, 2007, and Tally, 2011) have their specificities, but they all agree upon the omnipresence of space, place and mapping at the core of analysis. Other approaches like ecocriticism (Buell, 2001, and Garrard, 2004), geopoetics (White, 1994), geography of literature (Moretti, 2000), studies of the inserted map (Ljunberg, 2012, and Pristnall and Cooper, 2011) and narrative cartography have likewise drawn attention to space. Literature and Geography: The Writing of Space Throughout History, following an international conference in Lyon bringing together literary academics, geographers, cartographers and architects in order to discuss literature and geography as two practices of space, shows that literature, along with geography, is perfectly valid to account for space. Suggestions are offered here from all disciplines on how to take into account representations and discourses since texts, including literary ones, have become increasingly present in the analysis of geographers.

Author : Sheila Hones
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317695974

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Literary Geography by Sheila Hones Pdf

Literary Geography provides an introduction to work in the field, making the interdiscipline accessible and visible to students and academics working in literary studies and human geography, as well as related fields such as the geohumanities, place writing and geopoetics. Emphasising the long tradition of work with literary texts in human geography, this volume: provides an overview of literary geography as an interdiscipline, which combines aims and methods from human geography and literary studies explains how and why literary geography differs from spatially-oriented critical approaches in literary studies reviews geographical work with literary texts from the late 19th century to the present day includes a glossary of key terms and concepts employed in contemporary literary geography. Accessible and clear, this comprehensive overview is an essential guide for anyone interested in learning more about the history, current activity and future of work in the interdiscipline of literary geography.

Author : Douglas Charles David Pocock
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : English literature
ISBN : 0709901933

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Humanistic Geography and Literature by Douglas Charles David Pocock Pdf

Author : Lynn M. Houston
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9798216112167

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Literary Geography by Lynn M. Houston Pdf

This reference investigates the role of landscape in popular works and in doing so explores the time in which they were written. Literary Geography: An Encyclopedia of Real and Imagined Settings is an authoritative guide for students, teachers, and avid readers who seek to understand the importance of setting in interpreting works of literature, including poetry. By examining how authors and poets shaped their literary landscapes in such works as The Great Gatsby and Nineteen Eighty-Four, readers will discover historical, political, and cultural context hidden within the words of their favorite reads. The alphabetically arranged entries provide easy access to analysis of some of the most well-known and frequently assigned pieces of literature and poetry. Entries begin with a brief introduction to the featured piece of literature and then answer the questions: "How is literary landscape used to shape the story?"; "How is the literary landscape imbued with the geographical, political, cultural, and historical context of the author's contemporary world, whether purposeful or not?" Pop-up boxes provide quotes about literary landscapes throughout the book, and an appendix takes a brief look at the places writers congregated and that inspired them. A comprehensive scholarly bibliography of secondary sources pertaining to mapping, physical and cultural geography, ecocriticism, and the role of nature in literature rounds out the work.

Author : Hsuan L. Hsu
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010-05-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521197069

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Geography and the Production of Space in Nineteenth-Century American Literature by Hsuan L. Hsu Pdf

This book examines how literature represents different kinds of spaces, from the single-family home to the globe. It focuses on how nineteenth-century authors drew on literary tools including rhetoric, setting, and point of view to mediate between individuals and different spaces, and re-examines how local spaces were incorporated into global networks.

Author : Mauricette Fournier
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527526051

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Rural Writing by Mauricette Fournier Pdf

If, as a corollary of urbanization, many artists seized, as early as the nineteenth century and most of the twentieth century, the city as object and scene of their reflection on a world under construction, it was not the same for rural areas. Generally speaking, until recently, the countryside's representations have been shaped by the writings of a ruling class. However, in recent decades, alongside the “country novels” or “terroir novels” that follow in line with the rustic current initiated in the nineteenth century, more demanding literary productions have emerged. These writings, often fed by the sense of loss and the end of a certain agricultural lifestyle, are also exploring the contemporary reconstructions of rural areas, little publicized. They redefine a new “regionality”, less militant and certainly less connoted in its nostalgic link to the land. This book revisits rural areas and their representations in contemporary writing, in both popular and high culture, in order to draw a global landscape of current rural areas and new regionalities.

Author : Douglas C. D. Pocock
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317906322

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Humanistic Geography and Literature (RLE Social & Cultural Geography) by Douglas C. D. Pocock Pdf

This book introduces the beginning student to the major concepts, materials and tools of the discipline of geography. While it presents geographic theory, as whole and for each of its parts, the chief emphasis is on concrete analysis and example rather than on abstraction, an approach which has proven more successful for undergraduate courses than those with a more heavily theoretical bias. The text was extensively re-written for the third edition, which enhanced its clarity and effectiveness, with expanded cartographic coverage.

Author : Chenxi Tang
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780804758390

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The Geographic Imagination of Modernity by Chenxi Tang Pdf

This book is a study of the emergence of the geographic paradigm in modern Western thought around 1800.

Author : S. Hones
Publisher : Springer
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137413130

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Literary Geographies by S. Hones Pdf

Combining literary analysis with a practical introduction to interdisciplinary literary geography, Literary Geograp hie s examines key elements of Colum McCann's 2009 novel, Let the Great World Spi n . Hones examines concepts such as narrative space, literary and academic collaboration, and the geographies of creation, production, and reception.

Author : Jak Peake
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781781384565

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Between the Bocas by Jak Peake Pdf

Situated opposite the mouth of the Orinoco River, western Trinidad has long been considered an entrepôt to mainland South America. Trinidad’s geographic position—seen as strategic by various imperial governments—led to many heterogeneous peoples from across the region and globe settling or being relocated there. The calm waters around the Gulf of Paria on the western fringes of Trinidad induced settlers to construct a harbour, Port of Spain, around which the modern capital has been formed. From its colonial roots into the postcolonial era, western Trinidad therefore has played an especial part in the shaping of the island’s literature. Viewed from one perspective, western Trinidad might be deemed as narrating the heart of the modern state’s national literature. Alternatively, the political threats posed around San Fernando in Trinidad’s southwest in the 1930s and from within the capital in the 1970s present a different picture of western Trinidad—one in which the fractures of Trinidad and Tobago’s projected nationalism are prevalent. While sugar remains a dominant narrative in Caribbean literary studies, this book offers a unique literary perspective on matters too often perceived as the sole preserve of sociological, anthropological or geographical studies. The legacy of the oil industry and the development of the suburban commuter belt of East-West Corridor, therefore, form considerable discursive nodes, alongside other key Trinidadian sites, such as Woodford Square, colonial houses and the urban yards of Port of Spain. This study places works by well-known authors such as V. S. Naipaul and Samuel Selvon, alongside writing by Michel Maxwell Philip, Marcella Fanny Wilkins, E. L. Joseph, Earl Lovelace, Ismith Khan, Monique Roffey, Arthur Calder-Marshall and the largely neglected novelist, Yseult Bridges, who is almost entirely forgotten today. Using fiction, calypso, history, memoir, legal accounts, poetry, essays and journalism, this study opens with an analysis of Trinidad’s nineteenth century literature and offers twentieth century and more contemporary readings of the island in successive chapters. Chapters are roughly arranged in chronological order around particular sites and topoi, while literature from a variety of authors of British, Caribbean, Irish and Jewish descent is represented.

Author : William Sharp
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1904
Category : Authors, English
ISBN : IND:32000005066883

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Literary Geography by William Sharp Pdf

Author : Jean-Paul Forster
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : English literature
ISBN : 3034312571

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Eighteenth-century Geography and Representations of Space in English Fiction and Poetry by Jean-Paul Forster Pdf

The book is about the influence of geography on literary creation in the eighteenth century. It approaches the subject within the context of the changes that occurred in the way people thought about space and shows how the geographical way of looking at the globe and one's surroundings became one of the main constituents of fictional realism.

Author : Kathy Lavezzo
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0801473098

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Angels on the Edge of the World by Kathy Lavezzo Pdf

In a view that sweeps from the tenth century to the mid 16th century, this text shows how the English people's concern with their island's relative isolation on the global map contributed to the emergence of a distinctive English national consciousness in which marginality came to be seen as a virtue.

Author : Marc Shell
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780804789264

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Islandology by Marc Shell Pdf

Islandology is a fast-paced, fact-filled comparative essay in critical topography and cultural geography that cuts across different cultures and argues for a world of islands. The book explores the logical consequences of geographic place for the development of philosophy and the study of limits (Greece) and for the establishment of North Sea democracy (England and Iceland), explains the location of military hot-spots and great cities (Hormuz and Manhattan), and sheds new light on dozens of world-historical productions whose motivating islandic aspect has not heretofore been recognized (Shakespeare's Hamlet and Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung). Written by Shell in view of the melting of the world's great ice islands, Islandology shows not only new ways that we think about islands but also why and how we think by means of them.

Author : Meg Roland
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000415797

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Mirror of the World by Meg Roland Pdf

In the late fifteenth century, the production of print editions of Claudius Ptolemy’s second-century Geography sparked one of the most significant intellectual developments of the era—the production of mathematically-based, north-oriented maps. The production of world maps in England, however, was notably absent during this "Ptolemaic revival." As a result, the impact of Ptolemy’s text on English geographical thought has been obscured and minimalized, with scholars speculating a possible English indifference to or isolation from European geographic developments. Tracing English geographical thought through the material culture of literary and popular texts, this study provides evidence for the reception and transmission of Ptolemaic-based geography in England during a critical period of geographic innovation and synthesis, one that laid the foundation for modern geographical representation. With evidence from prose romance, book illustration, theatrical performance, cosmological ceilings, and almanacs, Mirror of the World proposes a new, interdisciplinary literary and cartographic history of the influence of Ptolemaic geography in England, one that reveals the lively integration of geographic concepts through narrative and non-cartographic visual forms.