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  2. Literary space - Wikipedia

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    This system is more abstract one than the previous one. It does not refer to how an individual work shapes space but how it is conventionally done by a given epoch, genre, etc. So, for instance, one of the main features of Gothic novels are elements of the supernatural and the sublime, [8] therefore, texts are full of ghosts, vampires and so on ...

  3. Geocriticism - Wikipedia

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    Geocriticism frequently involves the study of places described in the literature by various authors, but it can also study the effects of literary representations of a given space. An example of the range of geocritical practices can be found in Tally's collection Geocritical Explorations: Space, Place, and Mapping in Literary and Cultural Studies.

  4. Surviving late Roman examples of descriptiones include Ausonius's Ordo Nobilium Urbium, a fourth-century Latin poem that briefly describes thirteen cities including Milan and Bordeaux. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] Rutilius Namatianus 's De reditu suo is a longer poem dating from the early fifth century that includes a section praising Rome .

  5. Chronotope - Wikipedia

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    The term itself comes from the Russian xронотоп, which in turn is derived from the Greek χρόνος ('time') and τόπος ('space'); it thus can be literally translated as "time-space." Bakhtin developed the term in his 1937 essay "Forms of Time and of the Chronotope in the Novel" (« Формы времени и хронотопа ...

  6. Fourth dimension in literature - Wikipedia

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    Some writers took the fourth dimension to be one of time, which is consistent with the physical principle that space and time are fused into a single continuum known as spacetime. Others preferred to think of the fourth dimension in spatial terms, and some associated the new mathematics with wider changes in modern culture.

  7. Proxemics - Wikipedia

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    Proxemics is the study of human use of space and the effects that population density has on behavior, communication, and social interaction. [1] Proxemics is one among several subcategories in the study of nonverbal communication, including haptics (touch), kinesics (body movement), vocalics (paralanguage), and chronemics (structure of time).

  8. Personal narrative - Wikipedia

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    Personal narrative (PN) is a prose narrative relating personal experience usually told in first person; its content is nontraditional. [1] "Personal" refers to a story from one's life or experiences. "Nontraditional" refers to literature that does not fit the typical criteria of a narrative.

  9. Confessional poetry - Wikipedia

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    In 1959 M. L. Rosenthal first used the term "confessional" in a review of Robert Lowell's Life Studies entitled "Poetry as Confession". [6] Rosenthal differentiated the confessional approach from other modes of lyric poetry by way of its use of confidences that (Rosenthal said) went "beyond customary bounds of reticence or personal embarrassment". [7]