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1.1 What Is Literary Geography? Literary geography is, rst of all, an exploration of place and how place marks literary narratives; as a eld, it sits at the intersection of literary studies and human geography (Alexander, 2015). There is more than one way to do literary geography, since literary geography is, as Barbara Piatti has argued, a ...
Drawing upon multiple literary, critical, and theoretical tradition, geocritical or spatial literary studies today present many different ways of approaching questions of space, place, or geography and literature.
This relatively understudied field of geographic research, often titled “literary geography,” includes several overlapping perspectives following the main epistemological and theoretical turns in the fields of human and cultural geographies.
Literary Geography,’ in which he uses the key term ‘critical’ to distinguish his suggestion for a new approach to literary geography within literary studies from an earlier, ‘uncritical’ form: the ‘effortless mapping of represented landscapes’ found in popular gazetteers and tourist guides.
Literary geography today is best described as an interdisciplinary field of study in which the main subject of focus is the interrelations of narrative, text, and spatiality.
Focusing on the development and interaction of spaces within and exterior to literary texts, literary geography attracts scholars from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds, further adding to its development as a vibrant and multifaceted field of study.
should literary 'data' be used with more traditional forms of geographical information such as demo-graphic figures, interview and archival material? How should contradictions between sources be mediated? Put more simply, what does literature mean? Many geographers who use literature in their writings - especially regional geographers - appear
