Geocritical Explorations : Space, Place, and Mapping in Literary and Cultural Studies

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 __Geocritical Explorations__ presents an array of concrete examples and readings, which also reveal the broad range of geocritical practices. Representing various areas of literary and cultural studies, as well as different parts of the globe and multiple types of space, __Geocritical Explorations__ provides a succinct overview of geocriticism and a point of departure for further exploration. 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 Geocritical Explorations Presents An Array Of Concrete Examples And Readings, Which Also Reveal The Broad Range Of Geocritical Practices. Representing Various Areas Of Literary And Cultural Studies, As Well As Different Parts Of The Globe And Multiple Types Of Space, Geocritical Explorations Provides A Succinct Overview Of Geocriticism And A Point Of Departure For Further Exploration. Geocriticism, Geopoetics, Geophilosophy, And Beyond / Eric Prieto -- The Presencing Of Place In Literature: Towards An Embodied Topopoetic Mode Of Reading / Sten Pultz Moslund -- Redrawing The Map: An Interdisciplinary Geocritical Approach To Australian Cultural Narratives / Peta Mitchell, Jane Stadler -- Textual Forests: The Representation Of Landscape In Latin American Narratives / Maria Mercedes Ortiz Rodriguez -- Land Of Racial Confluence And Spatial Accessibility: Claude Mckay's Sense Of Mediterranean Place / Michael K. Walonen -- The Shores Of Aphrodite's Island: Cyprus And European Travel Memory,1600-1700 / Antoine Eche -- Jefferson's Ecologies Of Exception: Geography, Race, And American Empire In The Age Of Globalization / Christine M. Battista -- Geopolitics, Landscape, And Guilt In Nineteenth-century Colonial Literature / Rebecca Weaver-hightower -- Amid All The Maze, Uproar, And Novelty: The Limits Of Other-space In Sister Carrie / Rachel Collins -- Furrowing The Soil With His Pen: Derek Walcott's Topography Of The English Countryside / Joanna Johnson -- Global Positioning From Spain: Mapping Identity In African American Narratives Of Travel / Maria C. Ramos -- The Space Of Transgression: A Geocritical Study Of Albert Camus's The Adulterous Wife / Brigitte Le Juez -- Affective Mapping In Lyric Poetry / Heather Yeung. Edited By Robert T. Tally Jr. ; Foreword By Bertrand Westphal. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Foreword; B.Westphal Introduction: On Geocriticism; R.T.Tally Jr. PART I: GEOCRITICISM IN THEORY AND PRACTICE Geocriticism, Geopoetics, Geophilosophy, and Beyond; E.Prieto The Presencing of Place in Literature: Towards an Embodied Topopoetic Mode of Reading; S.Pultz Moslund PART II: PLACES, SPACES, TEXTS Redrawing the Map: An Interdisciplinary Geocritical Approach to Australian Cultural Narratives; P.Mitchell & J.Stadler Textual Forests: The Representation of Landscape in Latin American Narratives; M.Mercedes Ortiz Rodriguez Land of Racial Confluence and Spatial Accessibility: Claude McKay's Sense of Mediterranean Place; M.K.Walonen The Shores of Aphrodite's Island: Cyprus and European Travel Memory; A.Eche Jefferson's Ecologies of Exception: Geography, Race, and American Empire in the Age of Globalization; C.M.Battista PART III: TRANSGRESSIONS, MOVEMENTS, BORDER CROSSINGS Geopolitics, Landscape, and Guilt in Nineteenth-Century Colonial Literature; R.Weaver-Hightower "Amid all the maze, uproar and novelty": The Limits of Other-Space in Sister Carrie; R.Collins Furrowing the Soil With His Pen: Derek Walcott's Topography of the English Countryside; J.Johnson Global Positioning from Spain: Mapping Identity in African American Narratives of Travel; M.C.Ramos The Space of Transgression: A Geocritical Study of Albert Camus's "The Adulterous Wife"; B.La Juez Affective Mapping in Lyric Poetry; H.Yeung 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. Geocritical Explorations provides a succinct overview of geocriticism and a point of departure for further study. 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 Geocritical Explorations presents an array of concrete examples and readings, which also reveal the broad range of geocritical practices. Representing various areas of literary and cultural studies, as well as different parts of the globe and multiple types of space, Geocritical Explorations provides a succinct overview of geocriticism and a point of departure for further exploration 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.