Dorothy Richardson's 'Art of Memory'
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- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- Publication date:
- 14 January 2026
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- 9781526185631
- 9780719083266
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This book addresses the question of how identity is formed as a result of corporeal and cultural positioning, by mapping Dorothy Richardson's early modernist text, Pilgrimage, against our postmodern interest in real and imagined geographies. It seeks to explore the issue of liminality and simultaneity in Pilgrimage by examining Richardson's textual enspacements, whereby, as Max Bense suggests, space should be conceived as the nodal point knotting together a variety of instances. The book explores textual renditions of actual material places in Pilgrimage which implicitly refer to a reality outside the text and, at the same time, the use of spatial metaphors which are not related to any actual locations, but rather serve to encode abstract concepts like belongingness, communication or writing within spatial terms. It examines the diverse ways in which language not only renders tangible concrete places and metaphorical spaces but also itself spaces these representations. The book focuses on the localities inhabited by the protagonist Miriam, especially the correlation between location and human existence and examines the tectonic principle underlying epistemology and cognition. It addresses the analogy between space and text and discusses the work of Genette, Umberto Eco and Roland Barthes, all of whom offer a structuralist analysis of enspacement in narrative representation.
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