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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 ...
8 sie 2024 · 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.
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.
In other words, they should be aware of “literary geography,” which Foster defines as “humans inhabiting spaces, and at the same time spaces inhabiting humans.” Analyzing the geographic location of a work of literature requires many of the same skills as analyzing weather and the seasons.
19 lis 2013 · Cartography as an analytical tool for mapping real/fictional literary settings is today animating an expanding field of studies. The ‘geography/cartography of literature’ introduced by Moretti in his seminal book Atlas of the European Novel 1800–1900 (1998) still remains a major reference point.
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.
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.
