Posing new questions about realism and the creative power of narratives, Mucignat offers fresh readings of novels by Goethe, Jane Austen, Alessandro Manzoni, Stendahl, Charles Dickens and Gustave Flaubert, to examine the links between the nineteenth...Lasīt vairāk
Offering pluralised and context-sensitives approaches to temporalities in and of crises, this volume explores how literatures engagement with crises suggests both the need for and possibility of rethinking time....Lasīt vairāk
This book brings together a model of time and a model of language to generate a new model of narrative, where different stories with different temporalities and non-chronological modes of sequence can tell of different worlds of human and non-human...Lasīt vairāk
Literary Geography makes the interdiscipline accessible and visible to students and academics working in literary studies and human geography. This comprehensive overview is an essential guide for anyone interested in learning more about the interdi...Lasīt vairāk
This Handbook maps the key areas of spatiality within literary studies, offering a comprehensive overview but also pointing towards new and exciting directions of study. The interdisciplinary and global approach provides a thorough introduction and...Lasīt vairāk
This collection examines the figure of Robin Hood within geographical, cultural and temporal spaces. The volume is divided into two sections: the first features an interrogation of literary spaces to uncover the critical grounds in which the Robin H...Lasīt vairāk
The book illuminates the spatial utopianism of South Asian anti-colonial texts by showing how they refuse colonial spatial imaginaries to re-imagine the British Indian colony as the postcolony in diverse and contested ways....Lasīt vairāk
This book explores the entwinement of physical, temporal and psychological strata across literature, 1900 to 1930. With particular emphases on geological and archaeological tropes and conceptions of the stratified psyche, it charts these themes acro...Lasīt vairāk
In this pioneering study, Dr. Fernandez explores how the rise of institutional geography in Victorian England impacted imperial fictions emergence as a genre characterized by a preoccupation with space and place....Lasīt vairāk
Focusing on questions of space and locale in childrens literature, this collection explores how metaphorical and physical space can create landscapes of power, knowledge, and identity in texts from the early nineteenth century to the present. The co...Lasīt vairāk
Teaching Space, Place, and Literature surveys a broad expanse of literary critical, theoretical, historical territories, as it presents both an introduction to teaching spatial literary studies and an essential guide to scholarly research....Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 03-Apr-2014, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780199333905)
Reading Constellations uses Walter Benjamins philosophy of history to examine four canonical Victorian novels by Dickens, Hardy, and James....Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 29-Sep-2011, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780199731572)
Using spatial theory developed in the social sciences, this book explores the representation of space in Apolloniuss Argonautika as both an affirmation of Greek culture and a questioning of the differences between Greeks and non-Greeks. It presents...Lasīt vairāk
Blending history and architecture with literary analysis, this study explores the convents place in the early modern imagination. This title focuses on two pivotal events: the Council of Trent imposing strict enclosure on cloistered nuns, and the F...Lasīt vairāk
This book examines The Thousand and One Nights in terms of the tales narrative and in particular using the idea of the journey and mobility as a tool to understanding the work....Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 07-Feb-2002, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198187363)
Recent literary and cultural criticism is preoccupied with space. Coroneos uses the work of Joseph Conrad to unravel aspects of spatial thought from the geopolitical idea of closed space in the early twentieth century to the influence of Saussurea...Lasīt vairāk
