Topophrenia - Place, Narrative, and the Spatial Imagination Tally Jr. RobertPaperback / softback
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,…
Specifikacia Topophrenia - Place, Narrative, and the Spatial Imagination Tally Jr. RobertPaperback / softback
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