Dorothy Richardsons Art of Memory Space, identity, text [Paperback]

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.

Introduction

Part I Actual Material Spaces

1. Locations of passage and habitation

2. The spirit of the place

3. Three modes of emplacement: Absorption in space, movement through space, contemplation space

4. In search of lost space

Part II Metaphorical spaces

5. World-making as a cognitive process

6. The spatiality of psychic states

Part III Textual Space - Spatial Textuality

7. The space of literature

8. When the tapestry hangs complete: March Moonlight

Appendix: Critical literature on Dorothy Richardson

Bibliography

Elisabeth Bronfen is Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Zurich