SPI Seminars: Space, Place and Identity Research Cluster Seminar Series: Patricia Garcia (Translation Studies, U.Nottingham), ‘Human Spatiality and the Fantastic: Transgressions of Literary Realism’.

“Human Spatiality and the Fantastic:

Transgressions of Literary Realism”

by

Dr. Patricia GarcÌ_a

(Translation Studies/Spanish, U. Nottingham)

Wednesday, 17 February at 1 p.m.

Moore Institute Seminar Room – GO10,

Hardiman Research Building, NUI Galway

Thanks to the Spatial Turn in the Humanities and Social Sciences we now know that space is not a simple container of our existence: our spatial abilities perform a crucial role in our construction and perception of reality. In literature, space is a dimension that typically generates verisimilitude. The reader can identify that the action is set in a realistic fictional world thanks to a variety of spatial markers. However, how does space intervene in the transgression of literary realism? This talk will start with a reflection on the concepts of space and place in Postmodernity in order to explore four fundamental categories of space in narratives of the fantastic: body, boundary, hierarchy and world.

SPI Seminars – Space, Place and Identity Research Cluster Seminar Series

Please note change of time to 1 p.m.