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This ambitious book investigates a major yet underexplored nexus of themes in Roman cultural history: the evolving tropes of enclosure, retreat and compressed space within expanding, potentially borderless empire. In Roman writers' exploration of real and symbolic enclosures - caves, corners, villas, bathhouses, the 'prison' of the human body itself - we see the aesthetic, philosophical and political intersecting in fascinating ways, as the machine of empire is recast in tighter and tighter shapes. Victoria Rimell brings ideas and methods from literary theory, cultural studies and philosophy to bear on an extraordinary range of ancient texts rarely studied in juxtaposition, from Horace's Odes, Virgil's Aeneid and Ovid's Ibis, to Seneca's Letters, Statius' Achilleid and Tacitus' Annals. A series of epilogues puts these texts in conceptual dialogue with our own contemporary art world, and emphasizes the role Rome's imagination has played in the history of Western thinking about space, security and dwelling.

Latin poetry --- Space (Architecture) in literature. --- Space perception in literature. --- Literature and society --- History and criticism.

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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.

82.04 --- Literaire thema's --- Literature, Modern --- Space perception in literature. --- Geocriticism. --- Place (Philosophy) in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Space perception in literature --- Geocriticism --- Place (Philosophy) in literature --- History and criticism --- 82.04 Literaire thema's --- Criticism

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"Avatares de lo invisible" explora las fuerzas culturales que motivan la representación de lo que aparece o desaparece en textos como "El Abencerraje", el "Lazarillo de Tormes", el "Menosprecio de corte y alabanza de aldea" y varios ejemplos del amor de oídas. El libro examina lo visible y lo invisible desde la perspectiva de los usos asignados a espacios específicos dentro de una cultura, desarrollando una lectura de las amplias fuerzas que promovían la aparición o desaparición de información, objetos, sentimientos, identidades, secretos e intimidades en los Siglos de Oro.

Literatura española. --- Subjetividad. --- Espacio en literatura. --- Spanish literature --- Space perception in literature. --- Subjectivity in literature. --- History and criticism.

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Narrating Space / Spatializing Narrative: Where Narrative Theory and Geography Meet by Marie-Laure Ryan, Kenneth Foote, and Maoz Azaryahu offers a groundbreaking approach to understanding how space works in narrative and narrative theory and how narratives work in real space. Thus far, space has traditionally been viewed by narratologists as a backdrop to plot. This study argues that space serves important but under-explored narrative roles: It can be a focus of attention, a bearer of symbolic meaning, an object of emotional investment, a means of strategic planning, a principle of organization, and a supporting medium.Space intersects with narrative in two principal ways: "Narrating space" considers space as an object of representation, while "spatializing narrative" approaches space as the environment in which narrative is physically deployed. The inscription of narrative in real space is illustrated by such forms as technology-supported locative narratives, street names, and historical/heritage site and museum displays. While narratologists are best equipped to deal with the narration of space, geographers can make significant contributions to narratology by drawing attention to the spatialization of narrative. By bringing these two approaches together-and thereby building a bridge between narratology and geography-Narrating Space / Spatializing Narrative yields both a deepened understanding of human spatial experience and greater insight into narrative theory and poetic forms.

Space perception in literature. --- Geography in literature. --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Narrative (Rhetoric) --- Narrative writing --- Rhetoric --- Discourse analysis, Narrative --- Narratees (Rhetoric) --- Topography in literature --- Narration (Rhetoric). --- Literatur. --- Raum. --- Erzähltheorie. --- Geografie.

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What is our place in the world, and how do we inhabit, understand, and represent this place to others? Topophrenia gathers essays by Robert Tally that explore the relationship between space, place, and mapping, on the one hand, and literary criticism, history, and theory on the other. The book provides an introduction to spatial literary studies, exploring in detail the theory and practice of geocriticism, literary cartography, and the spatial humanities more generally. The spatial anxiety of disorientation and the need to know one’s location, even if only subconsciously, is a deeply felt and shared human experience. Building on Yi Fu Tuan’s "topophilia" (or love of place), Tally instead considers the notion of "topophrenia" as a simultaneous sense of place-consciousness coupled with a feeling of disorder, anxiety, and "dis-ease." He argues that no effective geography could be complete without also incorporating an awareness of the lonely, loathsome, or frightening spaces that condition our understanding of that space. Tally considers the tension between the objective ordering of a space and the subjective ways in which narrative worlds are constructed. Narrative maps present a way of understanding that seems realistic but is completely figurative. So how can these maps be used to not only understand the real world but also to put up an alternative vision of what that world might otherwise be? From Tolkien to Cervantes, Borges to More, Topophrenia provides a clear and compelling explanation of how geocriticism, the spatial humanities, and literary cartography help us to narrate, represent, and understand our place in a constantly changing world.

Geographical perception in literature --- Geography and literature. --- Space and time in literature. --- Space perception in literature. --- Lieu (philosophie) --- Cadre du récit --- Perception géographique --- Dans la littérature.