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GeocriticismandSpatialLiteraryStudies SeriesEditor: ROBERTT.TALLYJR.,TexasStateUniversity Seriesdescription: GeocriticismandSpatialLiteraryStudies is a new book series focusing on the dynamic relations among space, place, and literature. The spatial turn in the humanities and social sciences has occasioned an explosion of innova- tive, multidisciplinary scholarship in recent years, and geocriticism, broadly conceived,hasbeenamongthemorepromisingdevelopmentsinspatiallyori- ented literary studies. Whether focused on literary geography, cartography, geopoetics, or the spatial humanities more generally, geocritical approaches enablereaderstoreflectupontherepresentationofspaceandplace,bothin imaginary universes and in those zones where fiction meets reality. Titles in the series include both monographs and collections of essays devoted to lit- erary criticism, theory, and history, often in association with other arts and sciences. Drawing on diverse critical and theoretical traditions, books in the GeocriticismandSpatialLiteraryStudies seriesdisclose,analyze,andexplore thesignificanceofspace,place,andmappinginliteratureandintheworld. Robert T. Tally Jr. is Associate Professor of English at Texas State Univer- sity, USA. His work explores the relations among narrative, representation, and social space in American and world literature, criticism, and theory. Tally has been recognized as a leading figure in the emerging fields of geocriticism, spatiality studies, and the spatial humanities. Tally’s books includeFredricJameson:TheProjectofDialecticalCriticism;PoeandtheSub- versionofAmericanLiterature:Satire,Fantasy,Critique;UtopiaintheAgeof Globalization: Space, Representation, and the World System; Spatiality; Kurt Vonnegut and the American Novel: A Postmodern Iconography; and Melville, Mapping and Globalization: Literary Cartography in the American Baroque Writer.ThetranslatorofBertrandWestphal’sGeocriticism:RealandFictional Spacesss, Tally is the editor of GeocriticalExplorations:Space,Place,andMap- pinginLiteraryandCulturalStudies;KurtVonnegut:CriticalInsights;and LiteraryCartographies:Spatiality,Representation,andNarrative. Titlestodate: CosmopolitanismandPlace:SpatialFormsinContemporaryAnglophone Literature ByEmilyJohansen LiteraryCartographies:Spatiality,Representation,andNarrative EditedbyRobertT.TallyJr. The Geocritical Legacies of Edward W. Said: Spatiality, Critical Humanism, andComparativeLiterature EditedbyRobertT.TallyJr. SpatialEngagementwithPoetry ByHeatherH.Yeung Literature’sSensuousGeographies:PostcolonialMattersofPlace ByStenPultzMoslund GeoparsingEarlyModernEnglishDrama ByMonicaMatei-Chesnoiu Africa’sNarrativeGeographies:ChartingtheIntersectionsofGeocriticismand PostcolonialStudies ByDustinCrowley WomenandDomesticSpaceinContemporaryGothicNarratives:TheHouseas Subject ByAndrewHockSoonNg SpatialityandSymbolicExpression:OntheLinksbetweenPlaceandCulture EditedbyBillRichardson Spatiality and Symbolic Expression On the Links between Place and Culture Edited by Bill Richardson SPATIALITYANDSYMBOLICEXPRESSION Copyright©BillRichardson,2015. Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2015 978-1-137-50289-6 Allrightsreserved. Firstpublishedin2015by PALGRAVEMACMILLAN® intheUnitedStates—adivisionofSt.Martin’sPressLLC, 175FifthAvenue,NewYork,NY10010. 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ISBN 978-1-349-57308-0 ISBN 978-1-137-48851-0 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9781137488510 LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Spatialityandsymbolicexpression:onthelinksbetweenplaceand culture/editedbyBillRichardson. pages cm.—(Geocriticismandspatialliterarystudies(GSLS) Summary:“Thisbookexploresthelinksbetweenconceptsofspace andplaceandsomeofthewaysinwhichculturalexpression occurs,focusinginparticularonlanguage,literature,translation, pedagogy,film,music,artandtheuseoficonicimageryin nation-buildingprojects.Itpresentsatheoreticalframeworkfor suchadiscussion,andexaminesfourkeyfacetsofthat framework,relatingeachonetotheabove-mentionedmodesof symbolicexpression”—Providedbypublisher. Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. 1. Place(Philosophy)inliterature. 2. Geocriticism. 3. Space perception. 4. Symbolism. 5. Spaceandtimeinlanguage. 6. Geographicalperceptioninliterature. 7. Place(Philosophy) inmotionpictures. 8. Place(Philosophy)inart. I. Richardson, Bill,1953–editor. PN56.P49S632015 809(cid:2).93358—dc23 2015005449 AcataloguerecordofthebookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. DesignbyIntegraSoftwareServices Firstedition:July2015 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Contents ListofFigures vii SeriesEditor’sPreface ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction: The “Spatio-Cultural Dimension”: Overview andaProposedFramework 1 BillRichardson 1 Space,Time,andtheArticulationofaPlaceinthe World:ThePhilosophicalContext 21 FelixÓMurchadha 2 Symbol,Situatedness,andtheIndividualityofLiterary Space 41 BillRichardson 3 BridgingGaps;BuildingBridges:FiguresofSpeech, SymbolicExpression,andPedagogy 59 ChristianeSchönfeldandUlfStrohmayer 4 Spatiality,Place,andDisplacementinTwoGaelic Songs 87 LillisÓLaoire 5 LipsinLanguageandSpace:ImaginaryPlacesinJames Dawson’sAustralianAborigines (1881) 105 PaulCarter 6 TheSpaceofLanguageandthePlaceofLiterature 129 PaoloBartoloni 7 DreamingWell-beingintoBeing:Dualitiesof Virtual-ActualCommunities 155 KarenLeRossignol vi Contents 8 BetweenaRockandNoPlace:UrsulaMeier’s Home (2008) 177 ConnHolohan 9 OpWegnaarBroxeele:TheProductionofShared Spaces 191 CatherineEmerson 10 ThePoliticsofSpace:PoeticalDwellingandthe OccupationofPoetry 209 MilesKennedy Conclusion:Mapping,NottheMap 229 BillRichardson NotesonContributors 241 Index 245 Figures I.1 Twointersectingaxes:Abstract/Concreteand Individual/Collective 4 I.2 Fourspatio-culturalzonesresultingfromthetwo intersectingaxes 5 3.1 TimDavies,SevernBridge,fromtheseriesBridgesss, 2009 75 3.2 GustavDeutsch,stillfromtheshortfilmNon,jene regretterien(DerHimmelüberParisss,1988),short film,1988 76 9.1 TheMannekenPis statuelocatedatthecornerofrue duChêneandruedel’ÉtuveinBrussels (photo©C.Emerson) 192 C.1 FacialcastsofNiasislanders 237 Series Editor’s Preface The spatial turn in the humanities and social sciences has occasioned an explosion of innovative, multidisciplinary scholarship. Spatially oriented literary studies, whether operating under the banner of literary geography, literary cartography, geophilosophy, geopoetics, geocriticism, or the spatial humanities more generally, have helped to reframe or to transform contemporary criticism by focusing atten- tion, in various ways, on the dynamic relations among space, place, and literature. Reflecting upon the representation of space and place, whether in the real world, in imaginary universes, or in those hybrid zones where fiction meets reality, scholars and critics working in spa- tial literary studies are helping to reorient literary criticism, history, and theory. Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies is a book series presentingnewresearchinthisburgeoningfieldofinquiry. In exploring such matters as the representation of place in literary works, the relations between literature and geography, the histor- ical transformation of literary and cartographic practices, and the role of space in critical theory, among many others, geocriticism and spatial literary studies have also developed interdisciplinary or transdisciplinarymethodsandpractices,frequentlymakingproductive connections to architecture, art history, geography, history, philos- ophy, politics, social theory, and urban studies, to name but a few. Spatialcriticismisnotlimitedtothespacesoftheso-calledrealworld, anditsometimescallsintoquestionanytoofaciledistinctionbetween real and imaginary places, as it frequently investigates what Edward Sojahasreferredtoasthe“real-and-imagined”placesweexperiencein literatureasinlife.Indeed,althoughagreatdealofimportantresearch has been devoted to the literary representation of certain identifiable and well-known places (e.g., Dickens’s London, Baudelaire’s Paris, or Joyce’s Dublin), spatial critics have also explored the otherworldly spacesofliterature,suchasthosetobefoundinmyth,fantasy,science fiction,videogames,andcyberspace.Similarly,suchcriticismisinter- ested in the relationship between spatiality and such different media orgenresasfilmortelevision,music,comics,computerprograms,and
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