This book draws on the tools of literary analysis and cultural geography to investigate Ernest Hemingway's sophisticated construction of physical environments. In doing so, Laura Gruber Godfrey revises conventional approaches to Hemingway s literary landscapes and provides insight about his fictional characters and his readers alike.
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This book draws on the tools of literary analysis and cultural geography to investigate Ernest Hemingway's sophisticated construction of physical e...
Time, Literature and Cartography after the Spatial Turn argues that the spatial turn in literary studies has the unexplored potential to reinvigorate the ways in which we understand time in literature.
Time, Literature and Cartography after the Spatial Turn argues that the spatial turn in literary studies has the unexplored potential to reinvigorate ...
Featuring leading scholars in their fields, this book examines receptions of ancient and early modern literary works from around the world (China, Japan, Ancient Maya, Ancient Mediterranean, Ancient India, Ancient Mesopotamia) that have circulated globally across time and space (from East to West, North to South, South to West).
Featuring leading scholars in their fields, this book examines receptions of ancient and early modern literary works from around the world (China, Jap...
Cosmopolitanism and Place considers the way contemporary Anglophone fiction connects global identities with the experience in local places. Looking at fiction set in metropolises, regional cities, and rural communities, this book argues that the everyday experience of these places produces forms of wide connections that emphasize social justice.
Cosmopolitanism and Place considers the way contemporary Anglophone fiction connects global identities with the experience in local places. Looking at...
This volume moves the debate about literature and geography in a new direction by showing the significance of spatial settings in the enormous and complex field of popular fiction.
This volume moves the debate about literature and geography in a new direction by showing the significance of spatial settings in the enormous and com...
This book looks to the writings of prolific statesmen like D.F. Sarmiento, Estanislao Zeballos, and Euclides da Cunha to unearth the literary and political roots of the discipline of geography in nineteenth-century Latin America. Tracing the simultaneous rise of text-writing, map-making, and institution-building, it offers new insight into how nations consolidate their territories. Beginning with the titanic figures of Strabo and Humboldt, it rereads foundational works like Facundo and Os sertoes as examples of a recognizably geographical discourse. The book digs into...
This book looks to the writings of prolific statesmen like D.F. Sarmiento, Estanislao Zeballos, and Euclides da Cunha to unearth the literary and p...
This innovative volume employs theoretical tools from the field of literary geography to explore Virginia Woolf's writing and the ways in which she constructs her human subjects. It follows the routes of characters from The Voyage, Jacob's Room, Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse and more as they walk around London, demonstrating how Woolf constructs the characters in her stories in a very politically conscious way. As Larsson argues, none of Woolf's characters are able to walk just anywhere, at any time in history, or at any time of the day. Time, place, gender, and class form the...
This innovative volume employs theoretical tools from the field of literary geography to explore Virginia Woolf's writing and the ways in which she...
This collection emphasizes a cross-disciplinary approach to the many dimensions of the problem of scale, with essays that range in subject matter from literature, film, architecture, the plastic arts, philosophy, and scientific and political writing. It argues that in a globalized era with impossibly accelerating demands for textual competency and the vast availability of digital texts, literary studies must adapt by applying quantitative methods rather than close reading. The essays also look at literary maximalism and writing that provides a multiplicity of voices and plots to aspire to...
This collection emphasizes a cross-disciplinary approach to the many dimensions of the problem of scale, with essays that range in subject matter from...
This book examines Toni Morrison's fiction as a sustained effort to challenge the dominant narratives produced in the white supremacist political imaginary and conceptualize a more inclusive political imaginary in which black bodies are valued.
This book examines Toni Morrison's fiction as a sustained effort to challenge the dominant narratives produced in the white supremacist political imag...
