The ideologies of lived space in literary texts, ancient and modern /
"In a brief essay called Des espaces autres (1984) Michel Foucault announced that after the nineteenth century, which was dominated by a historical outlook, the current century might rather be the century of space. His prophecy has been fulfilled: the end of the twentieth century witnessed a &#...
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The ideologies of 'lived space', ancient and modern
- Part 1. Lived Space and Society. Cave and cosmos: sacred caves in Greek epic poetry from Home (eighth century BCE) to Nonnus (fifth century CE) / Emilie van Opstall
- Space and myth: the ideology of utopian and heterotopian representations in the contemporary novel / Sofie Verraest and Bart Keunen
- Part 2. Heterotopical Spaces and Chronotopes. Grave stories: (re)burial as chronotope and heterotopia in Sophcles' Antigone and Oedipus at Colonus, Tahar Djaout's Les Chercheurs d'os and Assia Djebar's Algerian White / Esther Peeren
- The theatre as heterotopia: the questioning of ideology in Euripides' Tojan Women / Paul van Uum
- Symbolic 'lived spaces' in ancient Greek lyric and the heterotopia of the symposium / Jo Heirman
- Brazil in Henrik Stangerup's Vejen til Lagoa Santa (The Road to Lagoa Santa, 1981) / Henk van der Liet
- Part 3. Ecocriticism and Space. Imagined space/lived space, alienation/destruction, singularity/specificity: testing three oppositions to find out what (lived) space means / Isabel Hoving
- Nature's helping hand: cooperation between builder and nature as a rhetorical strategy in Vitruvius, Statius and Pliny the Younger / Bettina Reitz
- Part 4. Space and Power. 'No bounds in space or time': Rome and the Underworld in the Aeneid. A text-linguistic and narratological analysis of Vergil, Aeneid 6.264-901 / Jacqueline Klooster
- The Epitaphios, civic ideology and cityscape of classical Athens: space and cultural memory / Mathieu de Bakker
- Inventing a national narrative: space, genre and ideology in Soutsos' O Leandros (1834) / Steven Van Renterghem
- Part 5. Spaces and the Deconstruction of Power. Global nativism in Jamaica Kincaid's A Small Place (1988) / Murat Aydemir
- Writing space, living space: time, agency and place relations in Herodotus's Histories / Elton Barker, Stefan Bouzarovski, Chris Pelling, Leif Isaksen.
