Spatiality

<p>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.</p><p>Robert T. Tally Jr. explores differing aspects of the spatial in literary studies today providing:</p><ul> <li>An overview of the spatial turn across literary theory from historicism and postmodernism to postcolonialism and globalization</li> <li>Introductions to the major theorists of spatiality including Michel Foucault David Harvey Edward Soja Erich Auerbach Georg Lukács and Fredric Jameson</li> <li>Analysis of critical perspectives on spatiality such as the writer as map-maker literature of the city and urban space and the concepts of literary geography cartographics and geocriticism.</li> </ul><p>This clear and engaging study presents readers with a thought provoking and illuminating guide to the literature and criticism of ‘space’. </p>