Space, Affect, Memory
Literary Geographies in Transnational and Transdisciplinary Comparison
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Space, Affect, Memory
Literary Geographies in Transnational and Transdisciplinary Comparison
An interdisciplinary exploration of the memorial and affective meanings of space in modern and contemporary literature.
Space, Affect, Memory highlights the centrality of space in modern and contemporary culture, both as an object of study and as a concept that underpins research and creative practice. In so doing, the book argues for the necessity of a new approach to space that fully integrates its affective and memorial dimensions. Encompassing lesser-known works in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, and Japanese, the essays expand the scope of previous scholarship in literary geography. They also offer a unique analysis of the performative aspect of representation, incorporating analyses of non-textual media like photography, performance, and architecture.
Space, Affect, Memory highlights the centrality of space in modern and contemporary culture, both as an object of study and as a concept that underpins research and creative practice. In so doing, the book argues for the necessity of a new approach to space that fully integrates its affective and memorial dimensions. Encompassing lesser-known works in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, and Japanese, the essays expand the scope of previous scholarship in literary geography. They also offer a unique analysis of the performative aspect of representation, incorporating analyses of non-textual media like photography, performance, and architecture.
248 pages | 6.14 x 9.21 | © 2025
Comparative Literature and Culture
Literature and Literary Criticism: General Criticism and Critical Theory
Table of Contents
List of figures
List of contributors
Introduction: Between performance and representation
Fernando Cabo Aseguinolaza and Tomás Espino Barrera
Part I: Grounding notions
1 Literary geography, chaotically
Sheila Hones
2 ‘Being, not representing’: non-representational thought in D.H. Lawrence’s non-fiction
Tim Gupwell
3 ‘Even the sepulchre dies’: the literary institution as necrological apparatus. Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer and Rosalía Castro in the context of nineteenth-century public memory
Fernando Cabo Aseguinolaza
Part II: Precarious settings
4 A sixteen-year night on the tiles: space, memory and affect in Ricardo Rangel’s photobook Our Nightly Bread (2004)
Paul Castro
5 Wandering traumatized spaces: performing spatial and temporal vulnerabilities in Jon McGregor’s Even the Dogs
Katia Marcellin
6 Geological histories, relational affects and the global novel’s scaling challenge in Élisabeth Filhol’s Doggerland
Marta Puxan-Oliva
7 Affective facts and politics of enmity: fracturing the looking glass of social (re)presentation in Y.B.’s Allah superstar (2003)
Eric Wistrom
Part III: Junctures and circulations
8 Godwin’s St. Leon adventure-making as risk-taking: gambling, capital and self-regulation
Rebecca Murray
9 European national pantheons from a transnational perspective (1851–1889). The Panthéon and the Ruhmeshalle as seen by Carolina Coronado and Emilia Pardo Bazán
Tomás Espino Barrera
10 ‘A monument for the living, not the dead’: unravelling the poetic-pedagogical threads in Legarsi alla montagna (1981)
Sara Moxham
Index
List of contributors
Introduction: Between performance and representation
Fernando Cabo Aseguinolaza and Tomás Espino Barrera
Part I: Grounding notions
1 Literary geography, chaotically
Sheila Hones
2 ‘Being, not representing’: non-representational thought in D.H. Lawrence’s non-fiction
Tim Gupwell
3 ‘Even the sepulchre dies’: the literary institution as necrological apparatus. Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer and Rosalía Castro in the context of nineteenth-century public memory
Fernando Cabo Aseguinolaza
Part II: Precarious settings
4 A sixteen-year night on the tiles: space, memory and affect in Ricardo Rangel’s photobook Our Nightly Bread (2004)
Paul Castro
5 Wandering traumatized spaces: performing spatial and temporal vulnerabilities in Jon McGregor’s Even the Dogs
Katia Marcellin
6 Geological histories, relational affects and the global novel’s scaling challenge in Élisabeth Filhol’s Doggerland
Marta Puxan-Oliva
7 Affective facts and politics of enmity: fracturing the looking glass of social (re)presentation in Y.B.’s Allah superstar (2003)
Eric Wistrom
Part III: Junctures and circulations
8 Godwin’s St. Leon adventure-making as risk-taking: gambling, capital and self-regulation
Rebecca Murray
9 European national pantheons from a transnational perspective (1851–1889). The Panthéon and the Ruhmeshalle as seen by Carolina Coronado and Emilia Pardo Bazán
Tomás Espino Barrera
10 ‘A monument for the living, not the dead’: unravelling the poetic-pedagogical threads in Legarsi alla montagna (1981)
Sara Moxham
Index