This chapter unfolds the second half of the book’s theoretical lens in the shape of literary geography. We will proceed from the premise of Saunders that literature ‘knows things’ about the spatiality of the society in which it is born. Using the insights of structural Marxist literary theory, in particular the work of Eagleton, Macherey, Rodríguez and Jameson, we can ascertain exactly what this type of knowledge is, namely, a knowledge crafted through putting the ideology of a social formation to work aesthetically. With the help of Bakhtin, we will sketch the dialogical nature of the novel form, which complexly articulates the languages/discourses of different classes and social groups, worked through the author, in relationships of tension, contradiction and confluence. The chapter will conclude that, by combining this understanding of literature with the radical geographic insights of Chap. 2 , a potent concept results—the spatial unconscious.

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Literary Geography and the Spatial Unconscious

  • Brett Heino

摘要

This chapter unfolds the second half of the book’s theoretical lens in the shape of literary geography. We will proceed from the premise of Saunders that literature ‘knows things’ about the spatiality of the society in which it is born. Using the insights of structural Marxist literary theory, in particular the work of Eagleton, Macherey, Rodríguez and Jameson, we can ascertain exactly what this type of knowledge is, namely, a knowledge crafted through putting the ideology of a social formation to work aesthetically. With the help of Bakhtin, we will sketch the dialogical nature of the novel form, which complexly articulates the languages/discourses of different classes and social groups, worked through the author, in relationships of tension, contradiction and confluence. The chapter will conclude that, by combining this understanding of literature with the radical geographic insights of Chap. 2 , a potent concept results—the spatial unconscious.