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Spatial Insight of Literature, its Genealogical Aspects and Perspectives

JANG ILGU 1

1전남대학교

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ABSTRACT

A positive interest in literary space was triggered by the agenda on ‘spatial form’ which Joseph Frank counted as the most significant feature of modern literature. Literary space is not a background element but a key clue for the constitutional thinking on literary phenomena. Spatial thinking is a way of cross-domain mapping and of deconstructing territories of substantial objects. So the spatial thinking of literature is designed with the perspective of constitutional notions on the dynamic mechanism in literary phenomena. From substitutional story to interactive discourse, from make-believe of actual world to simulation of virtual-real universe, from analog nature bound by linear time to digital text by segmental signal circuit and the like, literary phases would be shifted to the spatial dimensions. And the cause-and-effect logic could be substituted to the metaphoric processing for the creation of new image schema by mapping various concepts in different domains. Blend of cross-domain genre is an attractive index of spatial thinking of literature nowadays.

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