...Jonathan Arac Joseph Frank (1918–2013) achieved fame as a literary scholar first with his three-part essay “Spatial Form in Modern Literature” (1945) and then with his five-volume critical biography Dostoevsky (1976–2002). This essay traces his career, emphasizing its divergence from the practices...

..., it is all the same haunted by the formal residues of Eurocentrism because the “global” inherits its unresolved binaries and its spatial imagination that tends toward identity, intelligibility, and recognition. What I am calling accented criticism marks the desire to dismantle this post-Eurocentric form from...

...Anikó Imre I argue that postcolonial discourses are essential to unearthing and revising the complicated dynamic of codependence between Western and Eastern European nationalisms, which is haunted by internalized and rarely acknowledged traces of imperialism on both sides. However, the spatial...

...Arif Dirlik Around the turn of the twentieth century, late Qing (1644–1911) thinkers settled on an ancient term, Zhongguo , as an appropriate name for the nation-form to supplant the empire that had run its course. The renaming was directly inspired by the “Western” idea of “China,” which had...

... of history found in the appearance of different forms or genres of writ- ing. It should also be pointed out that the vocation of national history, which constitutes the principal preoccupation of historical practice down to the present, is, as the epigraph above suggests, more spatial than temporal...

... of time is thus matched by an ontological doubling of space. The spatiality of objective comparability is split between the locational perspective of the subject of utterance and the a priori form of spatialization itself. As the world-historical projection of the structure of tem- poralization...

.... The language of measure simultaneously describes and reorganizes land, labor, collective subjects, and historical change. The immigrant student or subject of instruction in Kim s earlier poems here almost completely vanishes into a matrix of legal codes, commodities, geometric spatial forms, and ancient...

... of spatialized form. . Altieri, The Particulars of Rapture, 535. Lerner  /  The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley  261 Stevens’s formal polish and resolution represent his faith in the powers of the imagination to transform the given, to produce superlatives...

... naturae: a spatial miniature that would include ‘‘digestivelythewhole range of all that can be known or dreamed’’ (P, 283).5 In this form, this ‘‘comprehensively compact’’ book would thus ‘‘deliver what he thought to be new, or at least miserably neglected Truth to the world’’ (P, 283...

..., 273). In Pierre, Melville is not only acutely aware that antebellum American literary theory and practice, in their ob- session to narrativize—to reduce to spatial form—the corrosive differences that time disseminates, are indissolubly related to Yankee metaphysics (its transcendentalist...

...), and thus should be anxious that it may actually reinforce the problem that it seeks to overcome. This article aims to propose a way of understanding and practicing CPT that resolves the field's anxieties about its ostensible obsession with origination, spatial differentiations, and area studies, which...

... forms of perpetual crisis and war. But this is not to call on Benjamin in the name of an immediacy 6808 boundar of ‘‘relevance an immediacy I suspect he would abhor; his time was not only the same but different. It is better...

... or nationalities, religions, and even civilizations, which is also intertwined with the concept of trans-societal system. For example, the tributary system in Chinese history is not only a mode of contact in a trans-systemic society but also a form of network in the trans-societal system. It links various...

... have known all along. A sharpening awareness not only of temporal and spatial but also of social difference, combined with suspicion of claims to cultural essentialism and uniformity, has provoked calls in recent years for the deconstruction of Chinese culture, which, at its logical extreme...

..., ‘‘the writing of the earth and preimperial Chinese geographer Zou Yan, has been material, topographical, spatial, and elemental: its concerns have been mountains, rivers, oceans, islands, and continents, and the way these forms shape social life and history. Martin Lewis and Kären Wigen’s work on continents...

... and temporality, writing itself is a form of mapmaking, literature an attempt to give form to a formless spatiality (Tally 2013: 84). However, Gee echoes Sebald in emphasizing that those textual maps often do not proceed according to long- standing guidelines of mapmaking. Instead, they function as sites...

... in the communal story are historical actors rather than its primitive others. I also argue that, formally, Li s reinvention of the modern Chinese historical novel draws on the Chinese novel s original proximity to history writing, and the gazetteer as a spatial historical form, beside a multitude of European...

...Arif Dirlik Duke University Press 2006 Global Modernity, Spatial Reconfigurations, and Global Health: Perspectives from the People’s Republic of China Arif Dirlik The recent tsunami disaster in South...

... formation and resolution 4 Capital needs a regional imaginary in order to overcome spatial barriers to expansion. As a metageographi- cal term, American Pacific names those practices of regional articulation through which a heterogeneous or dispersed area is discursively trans- formed...

... about this highly condensed essay is that each of its y 2 / 30:1 / sheet 177 of 224 sections is told from a different perspective, and that the ‘‘camera angle’’ from which each segment is narrated implies a distinct and separate spatial compartment...