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The author discusses three recent appropriations of the spatial thought in literary studies: the modernization of traditional literary geography in the research of the relations between geospaces and fictional worlds (Piatti, Westphal), the systematic analysis of the genre development and diffusion with the help of analytical cartography ...
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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 ...
Geography and Literature Juha Ridanpää Introduction In human and cultural geographies, fictive literature, novels, and poems have been used in different manners for over a century. Literature has been an object of study, a thematic context for research, a perspective through which the world is perceived, a methodological tool, and more.
Thinking Space is a series of short position papers on key terms and concepts for literary geography. Cumulatively, these accessible and wide-ranging pieces will explore the scope, parameters, and critical vocabulary of the field, clarifying important issues and stimulating discussion and debate.
The Routledge Handbook of Literary Geographies provides a comprehensive overview of recent research and a range of innovative ways of thinking literature and geography together. It maps the history of literary geography and identifies key developments and debates in the field.
Like ecocriticism – with which it has some loose affiliations (as well as important differences) – literary geography is often carried on under other names: imaginative geography, literary cartography, geocriticism, geopoetics, geohumanities.
