Space in Theory by Russell West-Pavlov
Space in Theory: Kristeva, Foucault, Deleuze seeks to give a detailed but succinct overview of the role of spatial reflection in three of the most influential French critical thinkers of recent decades. It proposes a step-by-step analysis of the changing place of space in their theories, focussing on the common problematic all three critics address, but highlighting the significant differences between them. It aims to rectify an unaccountable absence of detailed analysis to the significance of space in their work up until now.Space in Theory argues that Kristeva, Foucault and Deleuze address the question: How are meaning and knowledge produced in contemporary society? What makes it possible to speak and think in ways we take for granted? The answer which all three thinkers provide is: space. This space takes various forms: psychic, subjective space in Kristeva, power-knowledge-space in Foucault, and the spaces of life as multiple flows of becoming in Deleuze.
This book alternates between analyses of these thinkers’ theoretical texts, and brief digressions into literary texts by Barrico, de Beauvoir, Beckett, Bodrožić or Bonnefoy, via Borges, Forster, Gide, Gilbert, Glissant, Hall, to Kafka, Ondaatje, Perec, Proust, Sartre, Warner and Woolf. These detours through literature aim to render more concrete and accessible the highly complex conceptulization of contemporary spatial theory.
This volume is aimed at students, postgraduates and researchers interested in the areas of French poststructuralist theory, spatial reflection, or more generally contemporary cultural theory and cultural studies
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Place-ing the Prison Officer
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Sea Change
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Reflective Landscapes of the Anglophone Countries
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Cormac McCarthy and the Writing of American Spaces
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Roads of Her Own
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Topodynamics of Arrival
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Thinking Northern
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Navigating Cultural Spaces: Maritime Places
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Reading(s) / across / Borders
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Picturing America
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Negotiating Space in Latin America
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Artistic Reconfigurations of Rome
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Modern Architecture, Empire, and Race in Fascist Italy
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Geographies of Affect in Contemporary Literature and Visual Culture
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Resistance and the City
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Pictorial Photography and the American West, 1900-1950
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Timescapes of Waiting
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Negotiating Institutional Heritage and Wellbeing
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Literary Invention and the Cartographic Imagination
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Tales of Berlin in American Literature up to the 21st Century
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Placing Poetry
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The Poetics and Politics of the Desert
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English Topographies in Literature and Culture
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Futurescapes
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London post-2010 in British Literature and Culture
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Writing London and the Thames Estuary
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Process
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Page and Place
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Land & Identity
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Inside Out
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Perspectives on Mobility
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The Cultural Construction of London's East End
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The Cultural Construction of Hidden Spaces
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| ISBN 13 | 9789042025455 |
| ISBN 10 | 904202545X |
| Title | Space in Theory |
| Author | Russell West-Pavlov |
| Series | Spatial Practices |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Brill |
| Year published | 2009-01-01 |
| Number of pages | 276 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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