Geocritical Explorations Space, Place, and Mapping in Literary and Cultural Studies

In recent years the spatial turn in literary and cultural studies has opened up new ways of looking at the interactions among writers, readers, texts, and places. Geocriticism offers a timely new approach, and Geocritical Explorations presents an array of concrete examples and readings, which also reveal the broad range of geocritical practices. Representing various areas of literary and cultural studies, as well as different parts of the globe and multiple types of space, Geocritical Explorations provides a succinct overview of geocriticism and a point of departure for further exploration.

Robert T. Tally Jr. is Associate Professor of English at Texas State University, USA, where he teaches American and world literature. His books include Fredric Jameson: The Project of Dialectical Criticism; Poe and the Subversion of American Literature; Spatiality (The New Critical Idiom ); Utopia in the Age of Globalization; Kurt Vonnegut and the American Novel; Melville, Mapping and Globalization; and, as editor, Geocritical Explorations, Kurt Vonnegut: Critical Insights, and Literary Cartographies: Spatiality, Representation, and Narrative (forthcoming). Tally also serves as the general editor of the Palgrave Macmillan book series Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies.

Foreword; B.Westphal
Introduction: On Geocriticism; R.T.Tally Jr.
PART I: GEOCRITICISM IN THEORY AND PRACTICE
1. Geocriticism, Geopoetics, Geophilosophy, and Beyond; E.Prieto
2. The Presencing of Place in Literature: Towards an Embodied Topopoetic Mode of Reading; S.Pultz Moslund
PART II: PLACES, SPACES, TEXTS
3. Redrawing the Map: An Interdisciplinary Geocritical Approach to Australian Cultural Narratives; P.Mitchell & J.Stadler
4. Textual Forests: The Representation of Landscape in Latin American Narratives; M.Mercedes Ortiz Rodriguez
5. Land of Racial Confluence and Spatial Accessibility: Claude McKay's Sense of Mediterranean Place; M.K.Walonen
6. The Shores of Aphrodite's Island: Cyprus and European Travel Memory; A.Eche
7. Jefferson's Ecologies of Exception: Geography, Race, and American Empire in the Age of Globalization; C.M.Battista
PART III: TRANSGRESSIONS, MOVEMENTS, BORDER CROSSINGS
8. Geopolitics, Landscape, and Guilt in Nineteenth-Century Colonial Literature; R.Weaver-Hightower
9. "Amid all the maze, uproar and novelty": The Limits of Other-Space in Sister Carrie; R.Collins
10. Furrowing the Soil With His Pen: Derek Walcott's Topography of the English Countryside; J.Johnson
11. Global Positioning from Spain: Mapping Identity in African American Narratives of Travel; M.C.Ramos
12. The Space of Transgression: A Geocritical Study of Albert Camus's "The Adulterous Wife"; B.La Juez
13. Affective Mapping in Lyric Poetry; H.Yeung