Spatial Literary Studies

Robert T. Tally Jr. is NEH Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Humanities and Professor of English at Texas State University, where he teaches American and world literature.

• Introduction. Spaces of the Text: Literary Studies after the Spatial TurnRobert T. Tally Jr.Part I. Geocritical Theory and Practice1. Geocriticism at a Crossroads: An OverviewMariya Shymchyshyn2. How to Do Narratives with Maps: Cartography as a Performative Act in Gulliver’s Travels and Through the Looking GlassEmmanuelle Peraldo and Yann Calbérac,3. Beyond Binaries and Metaphor: The Counterhegemonic Possibilities of PlaceJessica MaucionePart II. Geographies of the Text4. Mallarmé, Poet of the Earthly World: On Spatiality in L’Après midi d’une FauneRogério de Melo Franco5. Zola’s Spatial Explorations of Second Empire ParisJulia Kröger6. "Dr. Livingstone, I Presume?": The Demonic Grounds of M. NourbeSe Philip’s Looking for Livingstone: An Odyssey of SilenceKate Siklosi7. Rethinking the Beginning: Toni Morrison and the Dramatization of LiminalityMichelle Dreiding8. "You’ve been here before?": Space and Memory in Stephen Poliakoff’s DramasElizabeth RobertsonPart III. Geography in the Text9. Caves as Anti-Places: Robert Penn Warren’s The Cave and Cormac McCarthy’s Child of GodRalph Crane and Lisa Fletcher10. A Geocritical Approach to the Role of the Desert in Penelope Lively’s Moon Tiger and Michael Ondaatje’s The English PatientSarah Ager11. Isolated Spaces, Fragmented Places: Caryl Phillips’s Ghettoes in The Nature of Blood and The European TribeI. Murat Öner12. The Eternal Return and the Country/City Dynamic in Milan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of BeingAdam McKee13. Transgression, Boundaries, and Power: Rethinking the Space of Postcolonial LiteratureDustin CrowleyPart IV. The Problematics of Place14. "Oh, man, I’m nowhere": Ralph Ellison and the Psychospatial Terrain of Mid-Century HarlemWalter Bosse15. Covington is the Non-Place for Me: Walker Percy’s Topophilia in the Deserts of Theory and ConsumptionChris Margrave16. Alfred Hitchcock’s The Rear Window: Cold War, Spatiality, and the Paranoid SubjectBeatrice Kohler17. Locating the Clearing: Contested Boundaries in Toni Morrison’s Beloved and Song of Solomon Will Cunningham18. Remapping the Present: Dave Eggers’s Spatial Virtuality and the Condition of LiteratureNathan FrankPart V. Plus Ultra19. Spatial Literary Studies versus Literary Geography?: Boundaries and Borders amidst Interdisciplinary Approaches to Space and LiteratureRobert T. Tally Jr.