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Atlas of the European Novel 1800-1900
01 Jan 1998-
TL;DR: Moretti as mentioned in this paper explored the fictionalization of geography in the nineteenth-century novel and found that space may well be the secret protagonist of cultural history, in a series of one hundred maps, alongside Spanish picaresque novels, African colonial romances and Russian novels of ideas.
Abstract: In a series of one hundred maps, Franco Moretti explores the fictionalization of geography in the nineteenth-century novel. Balzac's Paris, Dickens's London and Scott's Scottish Lowlands are mapped, alongside the territories of Spanish picaresque novels, African colonial romances and Russian novels of ideas, in a path-breaking study which suggests that space may well be the secret protagonist of cultural history.
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TL;DR: Students are suggested to introduce students to their verses and apply their ideas to (di)versify the way the authors teach about maps and geography.
Abstract: This paper focuses upon four twentieth-century poets who write about maps. Spanning three generations and countries, they offer lessons on geography to children (John Fuller, May Swenson) and reminisce about their own geography classes (Don Gutteridge, Fiona Pitt-Kethley). Since their poems have much to teach regarding the meanings and uses of maps, this paper suggests that we introduce students to their verses and apply their ideas to (di)versify the way we teach about maps and geography.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose a methodology to address the urban evolutionary process, demonstrating how it is reflected in literature, focusing on "literary space" presented as a territory defined by the period setting or as evoked by the characters, which can be georeferenced and drawn on a map.
Abstract: This article proposes a methodology to address the urban evolutionary process, demonstrating how it is reflected in literature. It focuses on “literary space,” presented as a territory defined by the period setting or as evoked by the characters, which can be georeferenced and drawn on a map. It identifies the different locations of literary space in relation to urban development and the economic, political, and social context of the city. We suggest a new approach for mapping a relatively comprehensive body of literature by combining literary criticism, urban history, and geographic information systems (GIS). The home- range concept, used in animal ecology, has been adapted to reveal the size and location of literary space. This interdisciplinary methodology is applied in a case study to nineteenth- and twentieth-century novels involving the city of Lisbon. The developing concepts of cumulative literary space and common literary space introduce size calculations in addition to location and structure, previously developed by other researchers. Sequential and overlapping analyses of literary space throughout time have the advantage of presenting comparable and repeatable results for other researchers using a different body of literary works or studying another city. Results show how city changes shaped perceptions of the urban space as it was lived and experienced. A small core area, correspondent to a part of the city center, persists as literary space in all the novels analyzed. Furthermore, the literary space does not match the urban evolution. There is a time lag for embedding new urbanized areas in the imagined literary scenario.
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TL;DR: In this article, the relationship of the novel to the nation, the present, the 2007-08 financial crisis, and how it features in the contemporary novel is discussed, and a possible project of exploring contemporary novel in terms of the prevailing neoliberal lifeworld is explored.
Abstract: "This essay has three more or less discrete parts; that is, no firm linear argument is developed across them. Each part informs the next, but the arguments taken up in each could also be contemplated separately. The first responds to the thrust of this special issue, and considers the relationship of the novel to the nation; the second focuses on a worldly concern of the present, the 2007-08 financial crisis, and how it features in the contemporary novel; and the third moves toward a possible project of exploring the contemporary novel in terms of the prevailing neoliberal lifeworld. Together, these parts try to accentuate some of the general features of the contemporary novel."
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Dissertation•
01 Jan 2009
TL;DR: The subject conceived as "individual" is a sustained focus across the novels of Somali writer, Nuruddin Farah as mentioned in this paper, and a reading of individualism in Farah's novels in the context of the historical and philosophical development of modern identity in the societies of the North-Atlantic.
Abstract: The subject conceived as “individual” is a sustained focus across the novels of Somali writer, Nuruddin Farah. This thesis locates a reading of individualism in Farah’s novels in the context of the historical and philosophical development of modern identity in the societies of the North-Atlantic. It relies primarily on the analysis of philosopher, Charles Taylor, who proposes that individualism makes modern identity an historically unprecedented mode of conceiving the person. By individualism, Taylor refers to the inward location of moral sources in orientation around which the self is constituted. Nonindividualist conceptions of the self locate moral horizons external to the subject thereby defined. The novel appears to be the most significant cultural form which mutually constitutes modern subjectivity. This is suggested by the centrality of the Bildungsroman sub-genre which fundamentally determines the form of the novel. Farah’s work spans the historical development of the novel from the proto-realism of his first publication, through modernism and postmodernism, returning to the “neo-realism” of his most recent novel. The representation of the subject in the novel suggests transformations in identity which belie the uniformity of the disengaged, autonomous self which is articulated in the novel as a genre. Tension thus is generated between the social commitment Farah expresses as a writer and the limitations of the form which deny representation to the heteronomous subjectivities who are the objects of Farah’s concern. The introduction identifies the centrality of individualism to Farah’s project. Chapter 1 explores the historical development of individualism and genealogies of alternative conceptions of self. Chapter 2 addresses the articulation of individualism in the classic Bildungsroman, the sub-genre which defines the novel. Un ive rsi ty of Ca pe To wn Chapter 3 interrogates Farah’s use of the “dissensual” Bildungsroman to escape the contradiction of the classic Bildungsroman. Chapter 4 focuses on how modernism in the novels allows aesthetic resolution of individualist contradiction through fragmentation. Chapter 5 explores the resistance encountered when the novel attempts to represent heteronomy rather than autonomy. Chapter 6 suggests the indispensability of coherent subjectivity to Farah’s socially committed stance. Within the philosophical matrix of individualism, the “performative” or “stylized” subject is the consequential form of identity. Un ive rsi ty of Ca pe To wn
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TL;DR: In this article, D'haen analyzes the trajectories and trajectories of auteurs in the world literature for the first half of the XXe siecle of the 20th century, examining the genese des œuvres, les circulations and jeux d'influence entre Atlantique nord et sud, blanc, noir, and indien.
Abstract: "Pour le XXe siecle, il nous manque en effet une etude litteraire generale examinant la genese des œuvres, la trajectoire des auteurs ainsi que les circulations et jeux d’influence entre Atlantique nord et sud, blanc, noir, et indien, dans les principaux domaines concernes : les lettres anglophones, francophones, hispanophones, lusophones et neerlandophones (sans omettre les elements creolophones des Caraibes). Cette analyse contribuerait a ce « newly emerging world literature paradigm » evoque par D’haen...."
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