EAN: 9789052010533

SENSING SPACE - CLAIRE OMHOVÈRE KARTONIERT (TB)

This book enlarges the perspective of literary geography which tends to focus on the
correspondence between the objective world the geographer addresses and its subjective
rendering in art. Instead it considers how geography informs fresh aesthetic responses to space
in contemporary Canadian literature  with specific attention to the writings of Alistair
MacLeod  Jane Urquhart  Anne Michaels  Aritha van Herk  Rudy Wiebe  Robert Kroetsch and Thomas
Wharton. This broadening leads to a series of interrogations: what blanks in conventional
landscape writing does physical geography fill  and how? Where does the efficiency of geography
lie beyond its scientific accuracy or descriptive relevance? Pondering the role of geography in
a work of art therefore amounts to considering what makes geography work as art - is there such
a thing as a poetics of geography? Because the place of the writer and the representation of
space remain two central concerns in Canadian writing  the texts under scrutiny help elucidate
the critical role performed by the geographical imagination  a phrase used by theoreticians as
diverse as Edward Said  Edward Soja or Derek Gregory  in the fabrication of symbolic ties
between Canadians and the land they have come to share.

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