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Since the so-called spatial turn, space has taken a prominent role in literary and cultural analysis. A number of scholars have pointed out, however, that space and time cannot be separated and must be seen as two mutually determining forces. This course, more specifically, will concern itself with spatio-temporal relations in literature and read them against cultural theories of time and space. Our starting point will be Mikhail Bakhtin’s concept of the chronotope which he developed in the 1930s as an analytical perspective to trace the mutual shaping and reshaping of temporal and spatial relations in prose fiction in relation to major paradigm shifts in social and cultural history. This will be complemented by further theoretical positions that will help us to engage with a selection of novels from the 18th to the 20th centuries. Please get hold of and read the following texts: Henry Fielding, Joseph Andrews, Jane Austen, Emma, Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse Further material will be made available at the beginning of the semester. |
