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The Spatial Knowledge of Heterotopia Embodied in the Cathedral of the Sea

  • Cross-Cultural Studies
  • 2025, 75(), pp.251~287
  • Publisher : Center for Cross Culture Studies
  • Research Area : Humanities > Literature
  • Received : May 10, 2025
  • Accepted : June 9, 2025
  • Published : June 30, 2025

Juin Lim 1

1서울대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

According to the six characteristics of heterotopia, meaning Foucault's boundary space, we analyzed the symbolism of places in Cathedral of the Sea. To this end, we examined how the meaning of madness composed in social and cultural contexts had changed in each of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. It is important to understand that Jews and women targeted in witch hunts are heterotopic spaces that threaten traditions. They deviated from medieval Christian society and patriarchal social order. The religious court, prison, cathedral's underground scapegoats, Jewish communities, and public wreaths confirmed that religious discipline and oppression, sexual deviation and monitoring and punishment thereof, and spatiality embedded in heterogeneity between feudal aristocrats and serfs and between monarchy and citizens gave dynamism to the novel's narrative, showing the formation process of emerging capitalism and civic spirit from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.