| Author |
Tally, Robert T. |
| Year |
2011 |
| Publisher |
London: Palgrave Macmillan |
| Number of pages |
250 |
| ISBN |
9780230120808 |
| Keywords |
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Abstract
Amazon (2013):
"Geocritical Explorations" is the necessary companion volume to Bertrand Westphal's
"Geocriticism", as well as a notable contribution in its own right to our understanding
of the spatial turn in contemporary literary criticism. Taking Westphal's theorization
of 'geocriticism' as their point of departure, the authors of the essays collected
here offer provocative reflections on the theory and practice of putting 'place' at
the center of our thinking about literature. Ranging across the cartography, ecology,
insularity, frontiers, topography, and many other aspects of places on five different
continents as figured in fiction and nonfiction, poetry and prose, the essays in this
volume demonstrate that "place" is never a simple matter, just a neglected one. They
teach us fruitful ways to attend to place in literature, and thereby to recover its
role in the making of our world."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, and this book
presents an array of concrete examples or readings, which also reveal the broad range
of geocritical practices.
