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Spatiality Paperback – 1 October 2012
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Spatiality has risen to become a key concept in literary and cultural studies, with critical focus on the ‘spatial turn’ presenting a new approach to the traditional literary analyses of time and history.
Robert T. Tally Jr. explores differing aspects of the spatial in literary studies today, providing:
- An overview of the spatial turn across literary theory, from historicism and postmodernism to postcolonialism and globalization
- Introductions to the major theorists of spatiality, including Michel Foucault, David Harvey, Edward Soja, Erich Auerbach, Georg Lukács, and Fredric Jameson
- Analysis of critical perspectives on spatiality, such as the writer as map-maker, literature of the city and urban space, and the concepts of literary geography, cartographics and geocriticism.
This clear and engaging study presents readers with a thought provoking and illuminating guide to the literature and criticism of ‘space’.
- Print length192 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication date1 October 2012
- Dimensions12.9 x 1.12 x 19.81 cm
- ISBN-100415664403
- ISBN-13978-0415664400
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"Until Tally, no one had thought to explore contemporary theory more generally for the traces of spatial practice and thinking, something he has done with extraordinary thoroughness and intelligence, as well as with a good deal of originality. I would now consider his book on to the subject an indispensable introduction to the "spatial turn" of modern philosophy and criticism."
Fredric Jameson, Duke University
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"Until Tally, no one had thought to explore contemporary theory more generally for the traces of spatial practice and thinking, something he has done with extraordinary thoroughness and intelligence, as well as with a good deal of originality. I would now consider his book on to the subject an indispensable introduction to the "spatial turn" of modern philosophy and criticism."
Fredric Jameson, Duke University
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Robert T. Tally Jr. is Associate Professor of English at Texas State University, USA.
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- Publisher : Routledge; 1st edition (1 October 2012)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 192 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0415664403
- ISBN-13 : 978-0415664400
- Dimensions : 12.9 x 1.12 x 19.81 cm
- Best Sellers Rank: 923,357 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- 827 in History & Criticism of Gothic & Romantic Literature
- 2,067 in Human Geography (Books)
- 3,949 in Geography (Books)
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Robert T. Tally Jr. teaches American and world literature at Texas State University. His research and teaching focuses on the relations among space, narrative, and representation, particularly in U.S. and comparative literature, and he is active in the emerging fields of geocriticism, literary geography, and the spatial humanities. Tally is the editor of "Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies," a Palgrave Macmillan book series, and he has published several books, as well as dozens of essays and reviews, on literature, theory, and criticism.
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A necessity while reading the book is a net connection for googling terms as one reads, since the author cites many philosophers whose ideas might need a little in depth reading.
Also, curiosity. It's a good thing to have.
