Spatial Practices : Medieval/Modern

Spatial Practices Medieval/Modern

In recent decades the conceptualization of space and place as social constructs, rather than static settings has received significant attention and has been re-evaluated with an emphasis on the cultural, social and political practice. This shift moves away from regarding space as fixed, unchanging c...

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Other Authors: Stock, Markus Prof. Dr. editor (editor), Vöhringer, Nicola Dr. editor, Eming, Jutta Prof. Dr. editor, Groos, Arthur Prof. Dr. editor, Mertens, Volker Prof. Dr. editor, Meyer, Matthias Prof. Dr. editor, Rasmussen, Ann Marie Prof. Dr. editor, Schiewer, Hans-Jochen Prof. Dr. editor
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Göttingen V&R Unipress 2014
Edition:1st ed
Series:Transatlantische Studien zu Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit - Transatlantic Studies on Medieval and Early Modern Literature and Culture (TRAST)
Subjects:
Literatur
Literaturgeschichte
space
place
spatial practices
spatial theory
heterotopy
Kant
Immanuel
Kuhn
Hugo
Certeau
de Michel
Foucault
Michel
Anthologies
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009654099006719
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Summary:In recent decades the conceptualization of space and place as social constructs, rather than static settings has received significant attention and has been re-evaluated with an emphasis on the cultural, social and political practice. This shift moves away from regarding space as fixed, unchanging container towards a realization that space is always inextricably linked with social practice and cultural signification. Thus, the study of spatial practices interrogates human action in different spaces, human agency in the production of space, and space in its capacity to prompt human action. By focusing on human action in manipulating and subverting space, and thereby creating multiple coexisting and overlapping spatialities, the interest also shifts from semiotic correlations in cultural expressions to events, practices, material and medial embodiment of culture.This collection of essays approaches the study of space and place from a historically inclusive perspective; it gives new insights into historical shifts and changes in the construction and perception of space as well as historical developments and diachonicity of literary, social, and architectural sites and places. It aims to gather a number of case studies in order to collect historically concrete evidence of such spatial practices as reflected in literature and art as well as in sources pertaining to the social and political life of premodern, early modern, and modern era.
Item Description:"With 23 figures".
Includes index.
Physical Description:1 online resource (270 p.)
ISBN:9783737000017
9783847000013

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