Spatiality Av Robert Tally Jr.

<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, providin</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 Luk¿, 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><P></P></UL><P>This clear and engaging study presents readers with a thought provoking and illuminating guide to the literature and criticism of ¿space¿. </P>