TY - BOOK AU - Tally,Robert T. TI - Geocritical explorations: space, place, and mapping in literary and cultural studies SN - 9780230120808 AV - PN56.S667 G46 2011 PY - 2011///] CY - New York PB - Palgrave Macmillan KW - Space in literature KW - Geocriticism KW - Geography and literature KW - Place (Philosophy) in literature N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Contents --; Foreword --; Notes --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction: On Geocriticism --; Notes --; Part I: Geocriticism in Theory and Practice --; Chapter 1: Geocriticism, Geopoetics, Geophilosophy, and Beyond --; Theoretical Orientations --; Situating Westphal's Geocriticism --; The Limits of Geocriticism --; Conclusion --; Notes --; Chapter 2: The Presencing of Place in Literature: Toward an Embodied Topopoetic Mode of Reading --; The Presencing of the Physical World in Language --; The Presencing of Place and Earth --; Examples of Topopoetic Appreciation --; Conclusion --; Notes --; Part II: Places, Spaces, and Texts --; Chapter 3: Redrawing the Map: An Interdisciplinary Geocritical Approach to Australian Cultural Narratives --; Geocritical Traditions: Literary Geography, Film Geography, and Traditions of Spatial Enquiry in Australian Literary, Film, and Theater Studies --; Geocriticism, Interdisciplinarity, and (Re)mediated Geographies: A Cultural Atlas of Australia --; Mashing Up the Map: Digital Cartography and Geocriticism in Practice --; Notes --; Chapter 4: Textual Forests: The Representation of Landscape in Latin American Narratives --; A Wealth Repository --; A Virgin at First Glance --; The Garden of Eden --; The Curse of God --; The Colonial Montage of Indianness --; Living Images --; Notes --; Chapter 5: Land of Racial Confluence and Spatial Accessibility: Claude McKay's Sense of Mediterranean Place --; Notes --; Chapter 6: The Shores of Aphrodite's Island: Cyprus and European Travel Memory, 1600-1700 --; Travel Writing and Geocriticism --; Memories of Aphrodite --; Aphrodite on the Map --; Conclusion --; Notes --; Chapter 7: Jefferson's Ecologies of Exception: Geography, Race, and American Empire in the Age of Globalization --; Mapping Precedes Ecology: The Jeffersonian Vision. Racial Ecologies and the Formation of a Fractured Body Politic --; Geographical Hegemony: A Vision of the Future --; Conclusion: Notes toward a Global Eco-Imperial Empire --; Notes --; Part III: Transgressions, Movements, and Border Crossings --; Chapter 8: Geopolitics, Landscape, and Guilt in Nineteenth-Century Colonial Literature --; The Settler Victim on His Homestead --; The Inevitable Colony --; The Defensive Posture --; Conclusion --; Notes --; Chapter 9: "Amid all the maze, uproar, and novelty": The Limits of Other-Space in Sister Carrie --; The Conventions of Rail Sociability --; Theaters, Parades, and Restaurants --; The Role of Discipline and Control --; The Novel and the World --; Notes --; Chapter 10: Furrowing the Soil with His Pen: Derek Walcott's Topography of the English Countryside --; Notes --; Chapter 11: Global Positioning from Spain: Mapping Identity in African American Narratives of Travel --; Challenging the Global Imaginary: Spain and the Trans-Mediterranean --; Individual Identification: The Moor's Return --; Recalculating: GPS as a Metaphor for Identity Construction --; An Uncanny Look at Home: Spain as a Cautionary Tale --; Notes --; Chapter 12: The Space of Transgression: A Geocritical Study of Albert Camus's "The Adulterous Wife" --; Notes --; Chapter 13: Affective Mapping in Lyric Poetry --; Notes --; Contributors --; Index ER -