Abstract

What is the relationship between place and cultural production? How do we account for the interaction between the domain of spatiality and that of artistic expression? In particular, how might we conceptualize the connections between space and literature? Here, I attempt to map the principal ways in which the central thematic issues we associate with literary expression are related to questions about space and place. By elucidating these matters, I hope to arrive at a rationale for an approach to setting out the links between symbolic expression and spatiality. Literature is envisaged here as one specific type of cultural expression, and the suggestion is that much of what applies to literature can be taken as...