{"title":"Patricia Garcia","description":"\u003cp\u003ePatricia Garcia's work delves into the intersections of space, culture, and identity, often exploring how postmodern themes shape contemporary narratives. Her writing invites readers to consider the complexities of art and literature through innovative and thought-provoking lenses.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRooted in the fields of \u003cem\u003eArts \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/em\u003e, Garcia's books offer insightful analyses that challenge conventional perspectives, making her collection essential for those intrigued by modern literary theory and the evolving dynamics of cultural expression.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"space-and-the-postmodern-fantastic-in-contemporary-literature-by-patricia-garcia-9781138824225","title":"Space and the Postmodern Fantastic in Contemporary Literature","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArising from the philosophical conviction that our sense of space plays a direct role in our apprehension and construction of reality (both factual and fictional), this book investigates how conceptions of postmodern space have transformed the history of the impossible in literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDeeply influenced by the work of Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar, there has been an unprecedented rise in the number of fantastic texts in which the impossible is bound to space — space not as scene of action but as an impossible element performing a fantastic transgression within the storyworld. \u003cem\u003eSpace and the Postmodern Fantastic in Contemporary Literature\u003c\/em\u003e conceptualizes and contextualizes this postmodern, fantastic use of space that disrupts the reader’s comfortable notion of space as objective reality in favour of the concept of space as socially mediated, constructed, and conventional.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn an illustration of the transnational nature of this phenomenon, García analyses a varied corpus of the Fantastic in the past four decades from different cultures and languages, merging literary analysis with classical questions of space related to the fields of philosophy, urban studies, and anthropology. Texts include authors such as Julio Cortázar (Argentina), John Barth (USA), J.G. Ballard (UK), Jacques Sternberg (Belgium), Fernando Iwasaki (Perú), Juan José Millás (Spain), and Éric Faye (France).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis book contributes to Literary Theory and Comparative Literature in the areas of the Fantastic, narratology, and Geocriticism and informs the continuing interdisciplinary debate on how human beings make sense of space.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47607791780076,"sku":"9781138824225","price":376.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/28b2cea6b0d59caa3d647d03c4f935ba.jpg?v=1778187758"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/patricia-garcia.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}