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Here and Now

By Youngjoo Son

Here and Now Contemporary literature

Here and Now

By Youngjoo Son

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Working at the crossroads of contemporary geographical and cultural theory, the book explores how social spaces function as sites which foreground D. H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf's critiques of the social order and longings for change. Looking at various social spaces from homes to nations to utopian space brought into the here and now the book shows the ways in which these writers criticize and deconstruct the contemporary symbolic, physical, and discursive spatial topoi of the dominant socio-spatial order and envision a more liberating and inclusive human geography. In addition, the book calls for the need to redress the tendency of some spatial theories to underestimate the political potential of literary discourse about space, instead of simply and mechanically appropriating some theoretical concepts to literary criticism. One of the central findings in the book, therefore, is that literary texts can perform subversive interventions in the production of social space through their critical interaction with dominant spatial codes.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
264
Release Date:
2006-03-03
Publication Date:
2006-03-01
Publisher:
Routledge
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0415975409
ISBN13:
9780415975407
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
584 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
20 cm
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