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Combining literary analysis with a practical introduction to interdisciplinary literary geography, Literary Geograp hie s examines key elements of Colum McCann's 2009 novel, Let the Great World Spi n . Hones examines concepts such as narrative space, literary and academic collaboration, and the geographies of creation, production, and reception.
List of contents
Introduction 1. The Event of the Novel 2. Narrative Locations 3. The Great World's New York 4. Narrative Space 5. Distances 6. The Intertextual City 7. Literary Space 8. Geographies of Creation and Promotion 9. Geographies of Reception Conclusion: What Happens Next?
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Sheila Hones is Professor at The University of Tokyo, Japan.
Summary
Combining literary analysis with a practical introduction to interdisciplinary literary geography, Literary Geograp hie s examines key elements of Colum McCann's 2009 novel, Let the Great World Spi n . Hones examines concepts such as narrative space, literary and academic collaboration, and the geographies of creation, production, and reception.
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“Sheila Hones’s Literary Geographies is a book that will benefit both literary critics interested in spatiality and cultural geographers interested in literature. … Exploring a wide range of topics that literary geography can deal with, Literary Geographies can be read as an attractive introduction to this interdisciplinary field.” (Hiroyuki Inoue, Pacific and America Studies, Vol. 16, March, 2016)
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"Sheila Hones's Literary Geographies is a book that will benefit both literary critics interested in spatiality and cultural geographers interested in literature. ... Exploring a wide range of topics that literary geography can deal with, Literary Geographies can be read as an attractive introduction to this interdisciplinary field." (Hiroyuki Inoue, Pacific and America Studies, Vol. 16, March, 2016)
