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• 31 jan 2017

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  Call for papers - Representation

  Literary spaces and critical territories

  Towards an Approach to Literary Space: Geopoetics and Geocriticism Crossing the Frontiers of Knowledge

  The theoretical reorientation of literary studies towards their renewed convergence with the “real”, later identified by some as the “spatial turn” (Soja, 1989), started to develop in the literary-theoretical landscape in the middle of the twentieth century, at the moment when key theoreticians in the field of structuralism paid significant attention to the relationship between “literature and reality”, with the aim of insistently denouncing any “referential illusion” (Barthes et al., 1982) and of committing the space of literature to intratextual specularity (Dällenbach, 1977).

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