Of Spaces and Ideas The Novels of Jim Crace and Simon Mawer.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Chalupský, Petr
Other Authors:	Topolovská, Tereza
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Prague : Karolinum Press, 2024.
Subjects:	Mawer, Simon > Criticism and interpretation. Crace, Jim > Criticism and interpretation. Space in literature. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Cover
Contents
Introduction
1. After the Spatial Turn
1.1 Approaching Crace's and Mawer's Spatial Representations
2. Jim Crace
3. Imaginary Landscapes and Landscapes of the Imagination in Jim Crace's Continent and The Gift of Stones
3.1 Continent
3.1.1 Continent's Imaginary Landscapes
3.1.2 Experiencing Spaces in Transition
3.2 The Gift of Stones
3.2.1 A Narrative Animal
3.2.2 From Wild Plant to Raconteur
3.2.3 A World That's Upside Down - the Landscapes of the Imagination
3.2.4 Consolatory Spatial Narratives of Transition
4. Character and Landscape Construction in Jim Crace's Signals of Distress and Quarantine
4.1 Signals of Distress
4.1.1 Of Words and Deeds: Aymer Smith
4.1.2 Symbolic Topography
Landscapes of Distress
4.1.3 The Old, the New, and the Unchanging
4.2 Quarantine
4.2.1 The Haggard, Incautious, and Rewarding Land of Quarantine
4.2.2 The Landscape as a Moral Agent
5. Jim Crace's Cityscape: Spatial Hybridisations, Transgressiveness, and Transmodern Critique in Arcadia (and The Melody)
5.1 Arcadia
5.1.1 The Urban Pastoral
5.1.2 In Search of Hope: The Townies
5.1.3 Agora vs. Arcadia
5.1.4 Straightforward Complexity
5.1.5 The Transmodern Paradigm Shift
5.1.6 Transmodern and Transgressive Craceland
5.1.7 Arcadia's Spatial Representations
5.1.8 Arcadia's Transmodernist Critique
5.1.9 Arcadia's Transmodern Spatio-temporality
5.2 Transmodern Concerns and Transgressive Spatiality in The Melody
6. Literary Cartography in Jim Crace's The Pesthouse and Harvest
6.1 The Pesthouse
6.1.1 The Heterogeneous Space of Crace's Imagined America
6.1.2 The Volatile Real-and-Imagined Landscapes
6.1.3 The Doomed Turned Blessed - Heterotopic Places
6.1.4 Mapping the Landscape of Trauma, Pain, and Hope
6.2 Harvest
6.2.1 Delusive Idyll
6.2.2 The Narrator
6.2.3 Mapping and Being Mapped
6.2.4 Cartography of Insecurity and Wonder
7. Simon Mawer
8. Chimera: Pioneering Simon Mawer's (Spatial) Poetics
8.1 Liminality in Chimera
8.2 Parallelism in Chimera
8.3 Idiosyncratic Conception of Time in Chimera
8.4 Thematisation of Archaeology
8.5 Thematisation of Catholicism
8.6 Place and Space in Chimera
9. Thematising Science and the Region of Central Europe in Simon Mawer's Mendel's Dwarf
9.1 Benedict Lambert
the Protagonist
9.2 Thematisation of Science in Mendel's Dwarf
9.3 The Space of Central Europe
10. The Glass Room: Housing Space, Architecture, and History
10.1 The Modernist Inspiration
10.2 The Glass Room from the Perspective of Historical Fiction
10.3 The Spatial Poetics of The Glass Room
10.4 The Glass Room and the Ideals of Architectural Modernism
11. Mapping the Liminal in Simon Mawer's Prague Spring
11.1 A Slice of History