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What is our place in the world, and how do we inhabit, understand, and represent this place to others? Topophrenia gathers essays by Robert Tally that explore the relationship between space, place, and mapping, on the one hand, and literary criticism, history, and theory on the other. The book provides an introduction to spatial literary studies, exploring in detail the theory and practice of geocriticism, literary cartography, and the spatial humanities more generally. The spatial anxiety of disorientation and the need to know one’s location, even if only subconsciously, is a deeply felt and shared human experience. Building on Yi Fu Tuan’s "topophilia" (or love of place), Tally instead considers the notion of "topophrenia" as a simultaneous sense of place-consciousness coupled with a feeling of disorder, anxiety, and "dis-ease." He argues that no effective geography could be complete without also incorporating an awareness of the lonely, loathsome, or frightening spaces that condition our understanding of that space. Tally considers the tension between the objective ordering of a space and the subjective ways in which narrative worlds are constructed. Narrative maps present a way of understanding that seems realistic but is completely figurative. So how can these maps be used to not only understand the real world but also to put up an alternative vision of what that world might otherwise be? From Tolkien to Cervantes, Borges to More, Topophrenia provides a clear and compelling explanation of how geocriticism, the spatial humanities, and literary cartography help us to narrate, represent, and understand our place in a constantly changing world.

Geographical perception in literature --- Geography and literature. --- Space and time in literature. --- Space perception in literature. --- Lieu (philosophie) --- Cadre du récit --- Perception géographique --- Dans la littérature.

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"This companion to J. O. Urmson's translation in the same series of Simplicius' Corollaries on Place and Time contains Simplicius' commentary on the chapters on place and time in Aristotle's Physics book 4. It is a rich source for the preceding 800 years' discussion of Aristotle's views. Simplicius records attacks on Aristotle's claim that time requires change, or consciousness. He reports a rebuttal of the Pythagorean theory that history will repeat itself exactly. He evaluates Aristotle's treatment of Zeno's paradox concerning place. Throughout he elucidates the structure and meaning of Aristotle's arguement, and all the more clearly for having separated off his own views into the Corollaries."--Bloomsbury Publishing This companion to J. O. Urmson's translation in the same series of Simplicius' Corollaries on Place and Time contains Simplicius' commentary on the chapters on place and time in Aristotle's Physics book 4. It is a rich source for the preceding 800 years' discussion of Aristotle's views. Simplicius records attacks on Aristotle's claim that time requires change, or consciousness. He reports a rebuttal of the Pythagorean theory that history will repeat itself exactly. He evaluates Aristotle's treatment of Zeno's paradox concerning place. Throughout he elucidates the structure and meaning of Aristotle's argument, and all the more clearly for having separated off his own views into the Corollaries.

Lieu (Philosophie). --- Place (philosophy) - Early works to 1800. --- Temps (Philosophie). --- Aristote / Physique - Livre 4, ch. 1-5, 10-14. --- Aristotle / Physics. --- Physics --- Science, Ancient. --- Aristotle. --- Philosophy of nature --- Aristotle --- Place (Philosophy) --- Time --- Early works to 1800. --- Aristoteles. --- Hours (Time) --- Geodetic astronomy --- Nautical astronomy --- Horology --- Philosophy --- Place (Philosophy) - Early works to 1800. --- Time - Early works to 1800.

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The midwestern pastoral is a literary tradition of place and rural experience that celebrates an attachment to land that is mystical as well as practical, based on historical and scientific knowledge as well as personal experience. It is exemplified in the poetry, fiction, and essays of writers who express an informed love of the nature and regional landscapes of the Midwest. Drawing on recent studies in cultural geography, environmental history, and mythology, as well as literary criticism, The Midwestern Pastoral: Place and Landscape in Literature of the American Heartland relates Midweste

Landscape in literature --- Landscapes in literature --- Landschap in de literatuur --- Landschappen in de literatuur --- Lieu (Philosophie) dans la littérature --- Middle West dans la littérature --- Middle West in de literatuur --- Middle West in literature --- Paysage dans la littérature --- Paysages dans la littérature --- Plaats (Filosofie) in de literatuur --- Place (Philosophy) in literature --- American literature --- Authors, American --- Pastoral literature, American --- American authors --- English literature --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- History and criticism --- Homes and haunts --- Middle West --- American Midwest --- Central States --- Central States Region --- Midwest --- Midwest States --- Midwestern States --- North Central Region --- North Central States --- Mississippi River Valley --- Northwest, Old --- In literature. --- Intellectual life. --- Authors [American ] --- Intellectual life --- Pastoral literature [American ] --- Cather, Willa Sibert --- Criticism and interpretation --- Leopold, Aldo --- Roethke, Theodore --- Wright, James Arlington --- Harrison, Jim --- Place (Philosophy) in literature. --- Landscapes in literature. --- History and criticism.