| Description |
1 online resource (256 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Cave and cosmos: sacred caves in Greek epic poetry from Home (eighth century BCE) to Nonnus (fifth century CE) / Emilie van Opstall -- Space and myth: the ideology of utopian and heterotopian representations in the contemporary novel / Sofie Verraest and Bart Keunen -- Grave stories: (re)burial as chronotope and heterotopia in Sophcles' Antigone and Oedipus at Colonus, Tahar Djaout's Les Chercheurs d'os and Assia Djebar's Algerian White / Esther Peeren -- The theatre as heterotopia: the questioning of ideology in Euripides' Tojan Women / Paul van Uum -- Symbolic 'lived spaces' in ancient Greek lyric and the heterotopia of the symposium / Jo Heirman -- Brazil in Henrik Stangerup's Vejen til Lagoa Santa (The Road to Lagoa Santa, 1981) / Henk van der Liet -- Imagined space/lived space, alienation/destruction, singularity/specificity: testing three oppositions to find out what (lived) space means / Isabel Hoving -- Nature's helping hand: cooperation between builder and nature as a rhetorical strategy in Vitruvius, Statius and Pliny the Younger / Bettina Reitz -- 'No bounds in space or time': Rome and the Underworld in the Aeneid. A text-linguistic and narratological analysis of Vergil, Aeneid 6.264-901 / Jacqueline Klooster -- The Epitaphios, civic ideology and cityscape of classical Athens: space and cultural memory / Mathieu de Bakker -- Inventing a national narrative: space, genre and ideology in Soutsos' O Leandros (1834) / Steven Van Renterghem -- Global nativism in Jamaica Kincaid's A Small Place (1988) / Murat Aydemir -- Writing space, living space: time, agency and place relations in Herodotus's Histories / Elton Barker, Stefan Bouzarovski, Chris Pelling, Leif Isaksen |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
Papers originally presented at the colloquium "Space in literature : questioning space in fiction" held at the University of Amsterdam, May 26-27, 2011 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Space in literature.
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Space and time in literature.
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Space and time in literature.
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Space in literature.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Heirman, Jo Gaby Marc
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Klooster, Jacqueline
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| LC no. |
2014375465 |
| ISBN |
9789038221021 |
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9038221029 |
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