Spatial Literary Studies

<p>Following the spatial turn in the humanities and social sciences <i>Spatial Literary Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Space Geography and the Imagination</i> offers a wide range of essays that reframe or transform contemporary criticism by focusing attention in various ways on the dynamic relations among space place and literature. These essays reflect upon the representation of space and place whether in the real world in imaginary universes or in those hybrid zones where fiction meets reality. Working within or alongside related approaches such as geocriticism literary geography and the spatial humanities these essays examine the relationship between literary spatiality and different genres or media such as film or television. The contributors to <i>Spatial Literary Studies</i> draw upon diverse critical and theoretical traditions in disclosing analyzing and exploring the significance of space place and mapping in literature and in the world thus making new textual geographies and literary cartographies possible. </p>