Literary Geographies
Narrative Space in Let the Great World Spin
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The Intertextual City
This chapter continues the spatial reading of the case study text, The Great World, with an expansion of the discussion of literary geography from the intratextual—the coherence and connectedness of the space of ...
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Literary Space
The previous chapter described an intertextual New York in which a combination of copresent New Yorks—fictional and factual, imagined and remembered—came together in my participant-observer reading to produce a.....
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Conclusion
Despite its title, this final chapter is more about anticipations than conclusions. Rather than finishing with a roundup of what just happened, it asks instead, “What happens next?”—for literary geography, for Th...
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Introduction
It’s early in the morning on Wednesday, August 7, 1974, and commuters are heading into Manhattan. At ground level, people traveling into work are coming up from subway stations, climbing out of taxis, and stepp.....
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Narrative Locations
As work in literary geography has become in recent years more consciously multidisciplinary, it has also inevitably had to start paying more attention to the various connotations and complications of discipline.....
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Narrative Space
The reading of The Great World offered in this book, as an example of practice in literary geography, is the result of one reader’s interaction with a novel. As a whole, the study explores the idea that the liter...
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Geographies of Creation and Promotion
After six chapters of close reading and textual analysis concentrating on the intratextual and the intertextual, here in the next two chapters, the discussion turns to a consideration of two extratextual aspect.....
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Geographies of Reception
In this chapter the discussion turns finally to the reception side of the interactive text event, with a discussion of ways in which The Great World has been grasped by readers, reviewers, book groups, and the me...
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The Event of the Novel
As the preceding chapter briefly explained, the conceptual platform supporting this exploration in literary geography is the idea that a work happens in the course of intermingled processes of writing, publishi.....
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The Great World’s New York
Colum McCann has talked in a recent interview about his interest in “the blurred spaces between fiction and nonfiction, the ‘real that’s imagined and the imagined that’s real.’” In his view, the “best writers a.....
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Distances
Because of the longstanding popular interest in literary gazetteers such as Malcolm Bradbury’s Atlas of Literature, and more recently because of the wide-ranging impact of Franco Moretti’s 1998 Atlas of the Europ...
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The Literary Dimension
Despite a sustained interest in develo** collaborations across the academic spectrum, the ‘invisible college’ (Acuto, 2011) of global city studies scholars still consists primarily of people working in the s...
