Text as It Happens

Literary Geography

Bibliographic Data

ID5776416
AuthorsSheila Hone (0000-0001-9098-4354), Sheila Hones (The University of Tokyo, corresponding author)
Year2008
Volume2
Issue5
Pages1301-1317
Publication date2008-08-04
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueGeography Compass (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1749-8198 • E-ISSN: 1749-8198
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1749-8198.2008.00143.x
OpenAlexW2137669872
LanguageEN
Citations received73
References cited73

This article reviews the current situation in geographical work with fiction in the context of an explicitly spatial view of the writing-reading nexus as a contextualized and always emerging geographical event. It argues that this way of conceptualizing the text events of both narrative fiction and academic knowledge production provides a way of understanding and dealing with incompatible literary interpretations and also with irreconcilable approaches to literary geography. This openness to multiplicity develops from the point that text events are not only relational by nature and generated within social contexts in the initial encounter of author, text, and reader, but also only become publicly accessible when subsequently articulated within the mediating context of a particular social situation. The article proposes that literary geography as a collective endeavor can be developed and consolidated through an appreciation of the varying contexts within which geographically oriented work with fiction is performed and articulated

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