The Modern Period

What is the 'place' of fiction? How are senses of place configured in literary language and philosophical concepts? How does the question about real and fictional space become a problem within the very practice of writing? This course will approach these questions as they appear in different literary and critical texts throughout the modern and contemporary periods. Some of the topics to be discussed include: the poetics of imaginary spaces, architectural diagrams, dystopias, and the relations between metafiction, writing, and non-place.