Spatial Literary Studies in China

by Ying Fang (Editor), Robert T. Tally Jr. (Editor)

Overview

Spatial Literary Studies in China explores the range of vibrant and innovative research being done in China today. Chinese scholars have been exploring spatially oriented literary criticism in two different and mutually reinforcing directions: the first has focused on the study of Western literature, especially U.S. and European texts and theory, and the second has examined Chinese cultures, texts, and spaces. This collection of essays demonstrates Chinese scholars’ insightful interpretation, evaluation, and innovative application of international spatial analyses, theories, and methodologies, as well as their inspiring exploration and reconstruction of distinctively Chinese critical and theoretical discourses. For the first time in English, the essays in this volume demonstrate the vitality of literary geography, geocriticism, and the spatial humanities in China in the twenty-first century.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783031039164
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	11/14/2022
Series:	Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies
Edition description:	1st ed. 2022
Pages:	346
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

Ying Fang is Professor of Comparative Literature and the World Literature at Zhejiang Gongshang University, Zhejiang China. She is the author of Spatial Narrative in Fiction (2017) and the translator of Spatiality by Robert T. Tally Jr. (2021). She is also a poet, who has published a collection (co-authored with Xuezheng Zhong, her husband) Walking and Singing (2019).

Robert T. Tally Jr. is Professor of English at Texas State University. His recent books include For a Ruthless Critique of All That Exists: Literature in an Age of Capitalist Realism and Topophrenia: Place, Narrative, and the Spatial Imagination.

Table of Contents

Part I Spatial Theory and Technology.- 1. Spatial Literary Studies in China: A Brief History.- 2. An Exploration of the Problems of Space and Spatialization.- 3. Mobility Studies: A New Direction in Spatial Literary Studies.- 4. Developing the Chinese Academic Map Publishing Platform.- 5. Space: The Keyword of Art History Study.- 6. The Attributes of British and American Literary Maps: An Exploration.- 7. Spatial Narrative in Fiction: “Spatialization” of Fiction Narrative.- Part II Studies in Literary Geography.- 8. The Construction of Academic System in a New Literary Geography.- 9. Regional Aesthetics and the Historical Formation of the Image of Jiangnan in the Literature of Six Dynasties.- 10. American National Parks: Symbolic Landscapes.- 11. Walking Landscape: Spatial Experience and Imagination of Modernity in the Overseas Travelogues in the Late Qing Dynasty.- 12. Introducing Literary Geography to the History of Chinese Literature.- 13. Spatial Metaphors and the Literary Cartography of Shanghai in Modern Chinese Novels.- Part III Geocritical Studies and Textual Analysis.- 14. The Middle Place: Mediation and Heterotopia in Nick Joaquín’s The Woman Who Had Two Navels.- 15. Lewis’s Babbitt, Literary Maps, and the Production of Space in American Cities.- 16. Pretext, Embedded-Text, Subtext: On the Landscape Narratives of Willa Cather’s One of Ours.- 17. Embedded Geographies in GUO Pu’s “River Fu”.- 18. The Source of the Terror: Interpreting the Liminal Space in Carson McCullers’s The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter.- 19. Antebellum Literary Cartography and the Construction of an American Oceanic Space.

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From the Publisher

“Spatial Literary Studies in China is a well-made collection compounded of hopefulness and empirical insight that can help various disciplines grasp how we might begin to engage with literary studies in this transnational moment to understand issues of space, place, nation, and identity in a perilously globalizing world we face across shared pressures and tensions of the present and future.” (Rob Sean Wilson, Professor of Literature, Creative Writing, and Cultural Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz)