190 Pages
by Routledge

190 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

Spatiality has risen to become a key concept in literary and cultural studies, with critical focus on the ‘spatial turn’ presenting a new approach to the traditional literary analyses of time and history. Robert T. Tally Jr. explores differing aspects of the spatial in literary studies today, providing: An overview of the spatial turn across literary theory, from historicism and... Read more

Introduction: You Are Here  1. The Spatial Turn  2. Literary Cartography  3. Literary Geography  4. Geocriticism  Conclusion: Other Spaces

Biography

Robert T. Tally Jr. is Associate Professor of English at Texas State University, USA.

"Until Tally, no one had thought to explore contemporary theory more generally for the traces of spatial practice and thinking, something he has done with extraordinary thoroughness and intelligence, as well as with a good deal of originality. I would now consider his book on to the subject an indispensable introduction to the "spatial turn" of modern philosophy and criticism."

Fredric Jameson, Duke University