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  1. Geocritical explorations
    space, place, and mapping in literary and cultural studies
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan, New York

    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... more

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    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. 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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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780230120808; 9781283439893
    RVK Categories: EC 5410
    Edition: 1. ed.
    Subjects: Place (Philosophy) in literature; Geocriticism; Geography and literature; Space in literature; Anthropology; Electronic books
    Other subjects: Space in literature; Geocriticism; Geography and literature; Place (Philosophy) in literature
    Scope: Online-Ressource (xviii, 231 p.)
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references and index

    Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    Recalculating: GPS as a Metaphor for Identity Construction
  2. Geocritical explorations
    space, place, and mapping in literary and cultural studies
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan, New York

    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... more

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    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Potsdamer Straße
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    Hochschulbibliothek Friedensau
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    Online-Ressource
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    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. 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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    Content information
    Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780230120808; 9781283439893
    RVK Categories: EC 5410
    Edition: 1. ed.
    Subjects: Place (Philosophy) in literature; Geocriticism; Geography and literature; Space in literature; Anthropology; Electronic books
    Other subjects: Space in literature; Geocriticism; Geography and literature; Place (Philosophy) in literature
    Scope: Online-Ressource (xviii, 231 p.)
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references and index

    Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    Recalculating: GPS as a Metaphor for Identity Construction