The Spatial Hinge: Reframed

James Thurgill

Abstract


First introduced in Thurgill and Lovell’s (2019) examination of place and collaboration in the text-as-spatial event (Hones 2008, 2014), the spatial hinge describes the ways in which, given the right circumstances, actual-world geographies might be experienced by readers as extensions of otheriwse unassociated literary worlds. This short ‘Thinking Space’ article reframes the spatial hinge to look at the way in which characters internal to literary narratives, as well as readers, experience textual geographies as a coming togoether or 'hinging' of and between intra- and extra-literary space.

Keywords


affect; interspatiality; literary geography; space; spatial hinge

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