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This module examines the geographies of literature and looks at how literary culture reflects on and shapes the places which it inhabits. The module begins by discussing spatial theories of culture in terms of, for example, colonial expansion, ecocriticism or psychogeography, and then studies examples of geographical areas which have produced and are produced by literary texts. Examples might include, but are not limited to: utopias and dystopias; colonized islands; the representation of cities in literary texts; nature writing.
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