Papers by Nancy Easterlin
Frontiers of Narrative Studies
This essay places narratology’s emphasis on space-time within the emergence of the discipline of ... more This essay places narratology’s emphasis on space-time within the emergence of the discipline of geography and the rise of a materialist, hard science orientation in US institutions after WWII, ultimately arguing that a nascent geographical narratology should aspire to the broad intellectual scope of geography’s origins. “The new geography,” which emerged in 1887 and focused comprehensively on the relation of humans to the earth’s surface, subsequently contracted and fragmented with the post-war emphasis on material science. Likewise expanding in the rationalist post-war climate, classical narratology emphasized logical categories, especially the space-time dichotomy, divorced from human meanings. Today, cognitive research suggests that narratology’s enduring space-time paradigm occludes the constructive realities of both human relations to physical locations and reader processes. Drawing on discussions of space in narrative theory and in current cognitive research on navigation, Ea...
Interdisciplinary Literary Studies
Handbook of Ecocriticism and Cultural Ecology, 2000
Interdisciplinary Literary Studies, 2001
Interdisciplinary Literary Studies a Journal of Criticism and Theory, 2014
Philosophy and Literature, 2015
Mosaic, Sep 1, 2004
... face in finding support for their proposal points back to the theoretical deficiencies of eco... more ... face in finding support for their proposal points back to the theoretical deficiencies of ecocriticism. ... between nature and culture is both artificial and necessary, Buell defines environment, for the ... as "the 'natural' and 'human built' dimensions of the palpable world" (Writing 3). What ...
Studies in the Literary Imagination, Sep 22, 2009
The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Literary Studies, 2015
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Papers by Nancy Easterlin