Spatiality and Symbolic Expression [recurso electrónico] : On the Links between Place and Culture

In this volume, scholars from a wide range of fields within the humanities explore the links between space and place and their relation to cultural expression. This collection shows that a focus on the spatial can help elucidate important facets of symbolic expression and cultural production, whether it be literature, music, dance, films, or art. Front Matter....Pages i-xi Introduction....Pages 1-19 Space, Time, and the Articulation of a Place in the World: The Philosophical Context....Pages 21-40 Symbol, Situatedness, and the Individuality of Literary Space....Pages 41-58 Bridging Gaps; Building Bridges: Figures of Speech, Symbolic Expression, and Pedagogy....Pages 59-86 Spatiality, Place, and Displacement in Two Gaelic Songs....Pages 87-104 Lips in Language and Space: Imaginary Places in James Dawson’s Australian Aborigines (1881)....Pages 105-128 The Space of Language and the Place of Literature....Pages 129-153 Dreaming Well-being into Being: Dualities of Virtual-Actual Communities....Pages 155-175 Between a Rock and No Place: Ursula Meier’s Home (2008)....Pages 177-190 Op Weg naar Broxeele: The Production of Shared Spaces....Pages 191-207 The Politics of Space: Poetical Dwelling and the Occupation of Poetry....Pages 209-228 Mapping, Not the Map....Pages 229-240 Back Matter....Pages 241-250 "We know now that space is something more than a rough container of events that are occurring in time. It was one of the original purposes of geocriticism to help demonstrating it. Through their own lens, the contributors of Spatiality and Symbolic Expression explore the referential aspect of all a set of symbolic expressions. Four key-words are pointed out by Richardson: philosophy, psychology, plasticity, and power. By intertwining them appropriately, the contributors of this collection keep a perfect focus on the crossroad between spatial realities and symbolic expression."--Bertrand Westphal, Universite de Limoges, France "This book explores the links between concepts of space and place and some of the ways in which cultural expression occurs, focusing in particular on language, literature, translation, pedagogy, film, music, art and the use of iconic imagery in nation-building projects. It presents a theoretical framework for such a discussion, and examines four key facets of that framework, relating each one to the above-mentioned modes of symbolic expression"-- Provided by publisher "This is a study of the links between concepts of space and place and a variety of modes of cultural and symbolic expression"-- Provided by publisher