Literary Cartographies Spatiality, Representation, and Narrative

by Tally Jr., Robert T.

• ISBN13: 9781137456496
• ISBN10: 1137456493
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2014-09-18
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Literary Cartographies: Spatiality, Representation, and Narrative addresses key aspects of narrative mapping while arguing for the significance of spatiality in comparative literary studies. Literary Cartographies surveys a broad expanse of literary historical territories, including romance and realism, modernism and imperialism, and the postmodern play of spaces in the era of globalization. As such, this collection also provides a representative sample of work being done in this area by spatially oriented critics across a range of periods, languages, and literatures. Drawing upon the resources of spatiality studies and comparative literature, this collection of essays explores the ways authors use both strictly mimetic and more fantastic means to figure forth the 'real-and-imagined' spaces of their respective worlds. Examining diverse texts and spaces, the contributors to Literary Cartographies demonstrate how a variety of romantic, realist, modernist, and postmodernist narratives represent the changing social spaces of their world, and of our own world system today.

Author Biography

Robert T. Tally Jr. is Associate Professor of English at Texas State University, USA. His recent books include Fredric Jameson: The Project of Dialectical Criticism; Spatiality (The New Critical Idiom); Utopia in the Age of Globalization; and, as editor, Geocritical Explorations: Space, Place, and Mapping in Literary and Cultural Studies.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Mapping Narratives; Robert T. Tally Jr.
1. What Lies Between?: Thinking Through Medieval Narrative Spatiality; Robert Allen Rouse
2. Plotting One's Position in Don Quijote: Literature and the Process of Cognitive Mapping; Jeanette E. Goddard
3. "Eyes that have dwelt on the past": Reading the Landscape of Memory in The Mill on the Floss; Alice Tsay
4. Mapping Hardy and Brontë; Susan Cook
5. "She sought a spiritual heir": Cosmopolitanism and the Pre-suburban in Howards End; Heather McNaugher
6. The Space of Russia in Joseph Conrad's Under Western Eyes; John G. Peters
7. "History, Mystery, Leisure, Pleasure": Evelyn Waugh, Bruno Latour, and the Ocean Liner; Shawna Ross
8. To the South England, to the West Eternity: Mapping Boundlessness in Modern Scottish Fiction; Jenny Pyke
9. Leaving the Landscape: Mapping Elsewhereness in Canadian City Literature; Myles Chilton
10. Mapping Tokyo's "Empty Center" in Oyama's A Man with No Talents; Barbara E. Thornbury
11. Mapping the Personal in Contemporary German Literature; Anne B. Wallen
12. Charting the Extraordinary: Sentient and Transontological Spaces; Rhona Trauvitch
13. On and Off the Map: Literary Narrative as Critique of Cartographic Reason; Derek Schilling