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The Ideologies of Lived Space in Literary Texts
Jo Heirman and Jacqueline Klooster
2014
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In a brief essay called Des espaces autres (1984) Michel Foucault announced that after the nineteenth century, which was dominated by a historical outlook, the current century might rather be the century of space. His prophecy has been fulfilled: the end of the twentieth century witnessed a ‘spatial turn’ in humanities which was perhaps partly due to the globalisation of our modern world. Inspired by the spatial turn in the humanities, this volume presents a number of essays on the ideological role of space in literary texts. The individual articles analyse ancient and modern literary texts from the angle of the most recent theoretical conceptualisations of space. The focus throughout is on how the experience of space is determined by dominant political, philosophical or religious ideologies and how, in turn, the description of spaces in literature is employed to express, broadcast or deconstruct this experience. By bringing together ancient and modern, mostly postcolonial texts, this volume hopes to stimulate discussion among disciplines and across continents. Among the authors discussed are: Homer, Nonnus, Alcaeus of Lesbos, Apollonius of Rhodes, Vergil, Herodotus, Panagiotis Soutsos, Assia Djebar, Tahar Djaout, Olive Senior, Jamaica Kincaid, Stefan Heym, Benoit Dutuertre, Henrik Stangerup and David Malouf.
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Keywords
- 20th century
- BCE to c 500 CE
- c 1800 to c 1900
- Chronotope
- English
- Europe
- For emergent readers (adult)
- Geographical Qualifiers
- ideology
- Indo-European languages
- Interest age & special interest qualifiers
- Interest age / level
- Language qualifiers
- Literary theory
- Literature & literary studies
- Literature: history & criticism
- Lived Space
- Modern period, c 1500 onwards
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- thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day::3MN 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899
- thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day::3MP 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999
- thema EDItEUR::5 Interest qualifiers::5A Interest age / level::5AX For adult emergent readers
- thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSA Literary theory
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- Western Continental Europe
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DOI: 10.26530/OAPEN_498512Editions