Space And The Postmodern Fantastic In Contemporary Literature eBook

The Architectural Void. This book studies how conceptions of postmodern space have transformed the history of the impossible in literature. This book conceptualizes and contextualizes the postmodern, fantastic use of space that disrupts the readers comfortable notion of space as objective reality in favor of the concept of space as socially mediated, constructed, and conventional. Garca analyzes a global corpus of the Fantastic, merging literary analysis with classical questions of space related to philosophy, urban studies, and anthropology. This book contributes to the Fantastic, narratology, and Geocriticism and informs