Space and the Postmodern Fantastic in Contemporary Literature: The Architectural Void

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Patricia Garcia

Space and the Postmodern Fantastic in Contemporary Literature

The Architectural Void

Patricia Garcia

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Routledge
05 May 2015

Literary theory; Literary studies: general; Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Science fiction; Human geography

Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

Arising from the philosophical conviction that our sense of space plays a direct role in our apprehension and construction of reality (both factual and fictional), this book investigates how conceptions of postmodern space have transformed the history of the impossible in literature. Deeply influenced by the work of Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar, there has been an unprecedented rise in the number of fantastic texts in which the impossible is bound to space — space not as scene of action but as impossible element performing a fantastic transgression within the storyworld. This book conceptualizes and contextualizes this postmodern, fantastic use of space that disrupts the reader’s comfortable notion of space as objective reality in favor of the concept of space as socially mediated, constructed, and conventional. In an illustration of the transnational nature of this phenomenon, García analyzes a varied corpus of the Fantastic in the past four decades from different cultures and languages, merging literary analysis with classical questions of space related to the fields of philosophy, urban studies, and anthropology. Texts include authors such as Julio Cortázar (Argentina), John Barth (USA), J.G. Ballard (UK), Jacques Sternberg (Belgium), Fernando Iwasaki (Perú), Juan José Millás (Spain,) and Éric Faye (France). This book contributes to Literary Theory and Comparative Literature in the areas of the Fantastic, narratology, and Geocriticism and informs the continuing interdisciplinary debate on how human beings make sense of space.

By: Patricia Garcia
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 408g
ISBN: 9781138824225
ISBN 10: 1138824224
Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
Pages: 188
Publication Date: 05 May 2015
Audience: College/higher education , Primary , A / AS level
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Patricia García is Assistant Professor in the School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies at the University of Nottingham, UK.

Reviews for Space and the Postmodern Fantastic in Contemporary Literature: The Architectural Void

'This impressive study of the postmodern fantastic makes a fresh foray into the terrain through its sustained emphasis upon the paradigms of space and place. Its genuinely global reach is especially exciting and, for those readers whose access to literary texts is too often restricted to works written or translated into English, Garcia’s insights into the Hispanic writings of José María Merino, Patricia Esteban Erlés, José B. Adolph and others, opens up a particularly rich literary landscape.' -- Lucie Armitt, University of Lincoln, UK