Spatial Literary Studies in China (Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies)

✍ Scribed by Ying Fang (editor), Robert T. Tally Jr. (editor)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 368
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Spatial Literary Studies in China explores the range of vibrant and innovative research being done in China today. Chinese scholars have been exploring spatially oriented literary criticism in two different and mutually reinforcing directions: the first has focused on the study of Western literature, especially U.S. and European texts and theory, and the second has examined Chinese cultures, texts, and spaces. This collection of essays demonstrates Chinese scholars’ insightful interpretation, evaluation, and innovative application of international spatial analyses, theories, and methodologies, as well as their inspiring exploration and reconstruction of distinctively Chinese critical and theoretical discourses. For the first time in English, the essays in this volume demonstrate the vitality of literary geography, geocriticism, and the spatial humanities in China in the twenty-first century.

✦ Table of Contents

Series Editor’s Preface
Acknowledgements
Contents
Notes on Contributors
Notes on Translators
List of Figures
Introduction
Part I: Spatial Theory and Technology
Chapter 1: Spatial Literary Studies in China: A Brief History
Chapter 2: An Exploration of the Problems of Space and Spatialization
Difficulties in Understanding and Defining the Term “Space”
Analysis of the Connotations of Space and Spatialization
Different Aspects: Production of Cultural Spaces and Artistic Ones
Conclusion
Chapter 3: Mobility Studies: A New Direction in Spatial Literary Studies
From the Spatial Turn to the Mobility Turn
What Makes the Mobilities Literary Studies Possible?
The Basic Dimensions of Mobilities Literary Studies
Chapter 4: Developing the Chinese Academic Map Publishing Platform
Introduction
An Overview of Chinese Historical Research
The Need for a Platform
An Overview of Existing Platforms for Historical GIS and Digital Humanities
The Construction of the Chinese Academic Map Publishing Platform
Establishing the Collaboration
Customizing the Current WorldMap for AMAP
Developing Content and Use Cases on the Platform
Functions of the Platform
Challenges and Opportunities
Internet Environment
Character Encoding
Map Projection and Datum
Software Development Culture
Future Perspectives
Conclusions
Chapter 5: Space: The Keyword of Art History Study
Chapter 6: The Attributes of British and American Literary Maps: An Exploration
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Chapter 7: Spatial Narrative in Fiction: “Spatialization” of Fiction Narrative
The “Foregrounding” of Space in Narrative
Organization of Narrative by Space
Spaces as the Major Source of the Meaning of Fiction
Part II: Studies in Literary Geography
Chapter 8: The Construction of Academic System in a New Literary Geography
The Concept of “New Literary Geography”
Transcending the “Ancient-Modern” Time Dimension
Transcending the “Chinese-Western” Space Dimension
Academic Return by Double Transcendences
The Academic Framework of “New Literary Geography”
Chapter 9: Regional Aesthetics and the Historical Formation of the Image of Jiangnan in the Literature of Six Dynasties
The Tribute System and the Imagery of Local Products in Jiangnan
Entering the North and Missing the South: The Independent Presentation of the Aesthetic Perspectives Toward Jiangnan
“Assimilating the North in the South” and the Second “Entering the North and Missing the South”: The Establishment and Strengthening of Aesthetic Standard for Jiangnan
The Formation of Jiangnan as a Literary Image: Image Construction and Cultural Identity
Conclusion
Chapter 10: American National Parks: Symbolic Landscapes
Introduction
Hudson River School’s Depiction of Western National Parks
National Parks in the West in Literary Works
Conclusion
Chapter 11: Walking Landscape: Spatial Experience and Imagination of Modernity in the Overseas Travelogues in the Late Qing Dynasty
From “Celestial Realm” to “Global Awareness”: The Modernity Turn of Space
From “Eye Tour” to “Mind Tour”: The Modernity Experience of Space
The Cultural Characteristics and Modernity Imagination of Overseas Travel
Chapter 12: Introducing Literary Geography to the History of Chinese Literature
The “Comparative Study of North and South Literature” Was Registered in a Series of Works of Chinese Literary History Written by Japanese Scholars
The Study of the Distribution of Playwrights’ Native Places Appeared in History of Song and Yuan Drama
The Geographical Distribution of Writers of the Past Dynasties Was Compiled in the Works on the History of Chinese Literature
The Construction of the Theory Model of the “Spatiotemporal Approach” to Chinese Literary History
The Significance of Literary Geography Being Included in the New Works on Chinese Literary History
Chapter 13: Spatial Metaphors and the Literary Cartography of Shanghai in Modern Chinese Novels
The Center of the Literary Map of Shanghai: The British Concession with No. 4 Horse Road as Its Core
The Sub-center of the Literary Map of Shanghai: The French Concession to the South of the Pidgin River
The Second Sub-center of the Map of Shanghai Novels: The American Concession in Hongkou (虹口)
Boundaries of the Literary Map of Shanghai: The Dominant and Recessive Spaces
The Metaphorical Meaning of the Spaces in the Literary Map of Shanghai
Part III: Geocritical Studies and Textual Analysis
Chapter 14: The Middle Place: Mediation and Heterotopia in Nick Joaquín’s The Woman Who Had Two Navels
Introduction
Manila Chinatown as a Middle Place
Hong Kong as a Middle Place
Conclusion
Chapter 15: Lewis’s Babbitt, Literary Maps, and the Production of Space in American Cities
“The Great Zenith”: The Spatial Positioning and Spatial Circle of American Cities
“Silver” and “Cliff”: Spatial Definition and Masculinity of American Cities
“Standard Flower Highland Villas”: Spatial Separation and Homogenization of American Cities
Chapter 16: Pretext, Embedded-Text, Subtext: On the Landscape Narratives of Willa Cather’s One of Ours
The Narrative of the Lost Paradise with Reference to the Pretext
Spatiotemporal Metaphors Under Embedded Text
The Dual Perspectives of Surface Text and Subtext
Conclusion
Chapter 17: Embedded Geographies in  GUO Pu’s “River Fu”
On Chinese and Western Literary Cartography
Innovations in GUO Pu Studies
Physical and Cultural Geographical Dimensions in the “River Fu”
Chapter 18: The Source of the Terror: Interpreting the Liminal Space in Carson McCullers’s The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Mirror: The Liminal Space Between the Real and the Imaginary
The Inside Room and the Outside Room: The Liminal Space of Adolescence
Conclusion: The Source of Terror
Chapter 19: Antebellum Literary Cartography and the Construction of an American Oceanic Space
National Narratives and the Initial Mapping of American National Nautical Chart
Personal Narratives and the Border-Remapping of the American Nautical Chart
Post-National Narratives and the Mapping of a World Nautical Chart
Conclusion
Index