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ERIC Number: ED673711
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2023-Aug-13
Pages: 24
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Locating Sense of Place in Literary Studies
Terry Locke
Cultural Studies and Transdisciplinarity in Education
Chapter 6, "Locating sense of place in literary studies", adventures on a traverse of literary criticism (or more generally literary studies) in search of concepts, orientations, discourses in relation to which sense of place might have some relevance. It begins with a focus on figures of speech, and the implications of viewing these "not" as neutral and universal, but rather as culturally constructed and thereby contestable, especially in relation to their function in writing that engages with the natural environment. It then moves to a consideration of the concept of "setting." The argument here is that in literary studies setting has become significant by virtue of its comparative absence, or by its marginalisation, or by its subordination to plot and character, or by a lack of attention to its theorisation. Bakhtin's concept of the chronotope is drawn on in addressing this absence, and arguing for ways of bringing setting back to centre-stage, thereby enabling a theorisation of its relationship to sense of place. The theme of Chapter 5 is returned to in exploring examples of the prose fiction genre of "travellers' tales," showing how they can be used to highlight contrasts in values attributed to place in texts where indigenous and non-indigenous perspectives are opposed. The discussion of poetry concerns itself with "pastoral" as a genre, with a particular focus on the work of John Clare. The chapter concludes with a discussion ecocriticism as a form of literary criticism that, at least with some of its practitioners, is congruent with the argument of this book and relevant to anyone concerned with the climate crisis. [For the complete volume, "Sense of Place, Identity and the Revisioning of Curriculum. Cultural Studies and Transdisciplinarity in Education. Volume 17," see ED673693.]
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