Interspatiality: Inhabiting Literary Geography
By (Author) Sheila Hones
University of Wales Press
University of Wales Press
13th January 2025
United Kingdom
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
Literary theory
Geography
Hardback
192
Width 138mm, Height 216mm, Spine 14mm
Interspatiality is a book about the language, theory and practice of a literary geography that takes as its subject matter the inseparability of writing, reading and living. It explores ways of engaging with interrelated textual-social-spatial processes, working with the problem of how to appreciate these processes as inseparable, how to articulate the complex spatialities they generate, and how to convey their presence, power and significance in literary texts. With a focus on literary geography as something inhabited as well as studied, the book draws attention to the interspatiality of routine daily life a mundane literary geography in surroundings that are made up of the real and imagined, of stories as well as locations, storied locations and located stories.
Sheila Hones is professor emerita at the University of Tokyo and an honorary research fellow at Swansea University, UK.