Document Type
Review
Abstract
[First paragraph]
Prior to the twentieth century, literary and cultural critics had been fascinated with the trajectory of time - of the remembrance of things past as situated inside of a historical canon. Throughout the first half of the twentieth century, however, a change began to take place. Scholars and critics began to take a closer look at "space." Specifically, how an author constructed a place within literature, and how in turn, a reader reconstructed a place through his or her reading. This change has been termed the "spatial turn" in literary and cultural studies, and this turn is the context for Robert T. Tally Jr.'s Spatiality, published as part of Routledge's New Critical Idiom series. An ambitious and engaging introduction to how space is viewed in literature, Spatiality offers a timely discussion of spatially oriented criticism in literary theory. Tally conducts a well-rounded discussion, incorporating a dazzling range of key literary and cultural scholars and topics intrinsic to spatiality. The result is an enlightening exploration of recent criticism and theory focused on the element of "space" in our current epoch of interconnectedness.
Repository Citation
Hudson, Matt. "Literary Cartography in an Age of Interconnectedness: Review of Spatiality, by Robert T. Tally Jr.." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture vol. 14, no. 3, 2014, pp. 1–4. https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/reconstruction/vol14/iss3/18