Prostorski obrat, literarna veda in slovenska književnost : uvodni zaris

slovenian

2013

volume 36, issue 2

literary science    Slovene literature 

Slovensko društvo za primerjalno književnost
(Obvezni izvod spletne publikacije)

Despite its postmodern articulation, the spatial turn is productive for literary studies as a remaking of Kant's attempt to base knowledge on the scientific character of geography and anthropology, and as an improvement of historical contextualization methods through the dialectics of ontologically heterogeneous spaces. This article presents three examples of appropriating spatial thought in literary studies: the modernization of traditional literary geography in research on the relations between geospaces and fictional worlds (Piatti, Westphal), the systematic analysis of genre development and the spatial diffusion of genres using analytical cartography (Moretti), and the transnational history of literary culture spaces (Valdés, Neubauer, Domínguez, etc.). The article concludes by outlining the research project led by the author, in which GIS technologies are used to map and analyze data on the media, institutions, and actors of Slovenian literature in order to demonstrate how interaction between "spaces in literature" and "literature in spaces" has historically established a nationalized and esthetically differentiated literary field.

17.10.2014