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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.

Space and time in literature.

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This book is a product of the XI International Conference on English Language and Literary Studies held in Montenegro in 2014. The "old spaces" were taken as a metaphorical tool for reintroducing a wide range of established topics with new approaches. Space was, thus, understood as physical, mechanical, continuous, linear, as measurable and symbolic, as subjective and relational, and as aesthetic. It was found on maps, in architecture, on theatre stages, in books, in hearts, in one's identity, in time, and in theses and theories from the Aristotelian topos to Einstein's construct of space-time

Space and time in literature. --- Space and time as a theme in literature

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"Das Spiel mit den Kategorien 'Raum' und 'Zeit' ist fur Minnesang von grundlegender Bedeutung. Es pragt die Lieder auf solch unterschiedlichen Ebenen wie Minneauffassung, Rollenkonzept, Sprechsituation, Lexem-Inventar oder Bildlichkeit. Die Beitrage einer Tubinger Tagung, die der vorliegende Band versammelt, machen 'Raum' und 'Zeit' in umfassender Weise als Interpretamente fur den Minnesang fruchtbar und arbeiten einer Systematisierung des Minnesangs mit Hilfe von raumlichen und zeitlichen Kriterien zu."--Page 4 of cover. Playing with the categories space and time has fundamental importance for the Minnesang. It is forming the songs on such different levels as concept, roles, situations of speech, lexem-inventory or vividness. The contributions of a conference in Tubingen, which this volume brings together, make space and time productive as interpretations for the Minnesang and work towards a systematization of the Minnesang with the help of spatial and temporal criteria.

Space and time in literature --- German poetry --- History and criticism --- 1050-1500

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"In The Written World: Space, Literature, and the Chorological Imagination in Early Modern France, Jeffrey N. Peters argues that geographic space may be understood as a foundational, originating principle of literary creation. By way of an innovative reading of chora, a concept developed by Plato in the Timaeus and often construed by philosophical tradition as "space," Peters shows that canonical literary works of the French seventeenth century are guided by what he calls a "chorological" approach to artistic invention. The chorological imagination describes the poetic as a cosmological event that gives location to--or, more accurately, in Plato's terms, receives--the world as an object of thought. In analyses of well-known authors such as Corneille, Molière, Racine, and Madame de Lafayette, Peters demonstrates that the apparent absence of physical space in seventeenth-century literary depiction indicates a subtle engagement with, rather than a rejection of, evolving principles of cosmological understanding. Space is not absent in these works so much as transformed in keeping with contemporaneous developments in early modern natural philosophy. The Written World will appeal to philosophers of literature and literary theorists as well as scholars of early modern Europe and historians of science and geography."--Provided by publisher.

French literature --- Space and time in literature. --- Imagination in literature. --- History and criticism.

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In this wide-ranging survey of ancient Greek narrative from archaic epic to classical prose, Alex Purves shows how stories unfold in space as well as in time. She traces a shift in authorial perspective, from a godlike overview to the more focused outlook of human beings caught up in a developing plot, inspired by advances in cartography, travel, and geometry. Her analysis of the temporal and spatial dimensions of ancient narrative leads to new interpretations of important texts by Homer, Herodotus, and Xenophon, among others, showing previously unnoticed connections between epic and prose. Drawing on the methods of classical philology, narrative theory, and cultural geography, Purves recovers a poetics of spatial representation that lies at the core of the Greeks' conception of their plots.

Geography in literature. --- Greek literature --- Space and time in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Geography in literature --- Space and time in literature --- Space and time as a theme in literature --- Topography in literature --- History and criticism --- Arts and Humanities --- History