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  2. Literary space - Wikipedia

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    In a literary work, space models different relations of the world-picture: temporary, social, ethical and others. […] in the literary models of the world―space sometimes metaphorically adopts meanings of relations in the modelled world-structure, that are themselves not spatial at all. [5]

  3. 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).

  4. 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.

  5. 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]

  6. List of writing genres - Wikipedia

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    Self-help: a work written with information intended to instruct or guide readers on solving personal problems. Obituary; Travel: literature containing elements of the outdoors, nature, adventure, and traveling. Guide book: book of information about a place, designed for the use of visitors or tourists; Travel blog; True crime

  7. Personal narrative - Wikipedia

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    Charlotte Linde writes about life stories, which are similar to the personal narrative: "A life story consists of all the stories and associated discourse units, such as explanations and chronicles, and the connections between them, told by an individual during his/her lifetime that satisfy the following two criteria: The stories and associated discourse units contained in the life story have ...

  8. 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.

  9. A Room of One's Own - Wikipedia

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    The title of the essay comes from Woolf's conception that "a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction". [2] The narrator of the work is referred to early on: "Here then was I (call me Mary Beton, Mary Seton, Mary Carmichael or by any name you please—it is not a matter of any importance)". [8]