Spatial Modernities: Geography, Narrative, Imaginaries

ISBN-13: 9780367666538 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 232 str.

Johannes Riquet; Elizabeth Kollmann

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This collection of essays offers a series of reflections on the specific literary and cultural forms that can be seen as the product of modernity’s spatial transformations, which have taken on new urgency in today’s world of ever increasing mobility and global networks. The book offers a broad perspective on the narrative and poetic dimensions o

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List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Framing the Debate: Spatial Modernities, Travelling Narratives

JOHANNES RIQUET

PART I

Mapping Modernity

1 In the Suburbs of Amaurotum: Fantasy, Utopia and Literary Cartography

ROBERT T. TALLY JR.

2 Mapping Utopia

CHRISTINA LJUNGBERG

3 Of the Novelty of Bird’s-Eye Views in Eighteenth-Century Travelling Narratives

JEAN-PAUL FORSTER

4 Satellite Vision and Geographical Imagination

DAVID SHIM

PART II

Island Spaces

5 Crossing the Sand: The Arrival on the Desert Island

BARNEY SAMSON

6 Two Centuries of Spatial ‘Island’ Assumptions: The Swiss Family Robinson and the Robinson Crusoe Legacy

BRITTA HARTMANN

7 Island Stills and Island Movements: Un/freezing the Island in 1920s and 1930s Hollywood Cinema

JOHANNES RIQUET

PART III

Shorelines/Borderlines

8 Words and Images of Flight: Representations of the Seashore in the Texts about the Overseas Flight of Estonians during the Autumn of 1944

MAARJA OJAMAA

9 The Literary Channel: Identity and Liminal Space in Island Fictions

INA HABERMANN

PART IV

Modernity on the Move

10 Montaigne: Travel and Travail

TOM CONLEY

11 The Expanding Space of the Train Carriage: A phenomenological reading of Michel Butor’s La modification

CAROLINE RABOURDIN

PART V

Late Modernity and the Spatialized Self

12 The Reader, the Writer, the Text: Traversing Spaces in Frank McCourt’s Angela’s Ashes

ELIZABETH KOLLMANN

13 Narrative, Space and Autobiographical Film in the Digital Age: An Analysis of The Beaches of Agnès (2008)

DEIRDRE RUSSELL

Notes on Contributors

Index

O autorze

Johannes Riquet is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Tampere. His research focuses on spatiality, the multiple relations between literature and geography, travel writing, phenomenology, and film studies. He has published on island narratives, railway literature and cinema, the poetics of snow and ice, and Shakespeare.

Elizabeth Kollmann studied in Port Elizabeth and Zurich and completed her PhD in English Literature at the University of Zurich in 2014. Her research interests include life writing, exile, postcolonialism and South African literature. She is a Lecturer in English at the ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences.