Space in Fiction

Abstract

Space, the domain of settings and surroundings of events, characters and objects in literary narrative, along with other domains (story, character, time and ideology), constitutes a fictional universe. For the purpose of describing some features of fictional spaces, I assume that space is a semantic construct built with linguistic structures employed by the literary text. Yet, this discussion is based on the assumption that the components of a fictional space cannot be identified with specific textual expressions; rather, fictional constructs of space are the products of the integration of dynamic bodies of spatial information. Thus, I intend, more specifically, to describe the relations between various categories of space-constructs and their surface (linguistic) manifestations.

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