Loneliness and displacement : a postmodern Geocritical reading of Jack London's "To Build A Firei"
Other Title(s)
الوحدة و التشريد : قراءة نقدية جغرافية لما بعد الحداثة لقصة جاك لندن "لكي توقد نارا"
Author
al-Disi, Amani Abd Allah Abd al-Aziz
Source
Bulletin of the Faculty of Arts
Issue
Vol. 68, Issue 93 (30 Sep. 2018), pp.1-27, 27 p.
Publisher
Alexandria University Faculty of Arts
Publication Date
2018-09-30
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
27
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
Within the theoretical framework of geocriticism, this paper examines the physical setting in London's "To Build A Fire" through defining its fictional and real spaces.
It investigates the relationship between the physical space of nature and the mental space of the main protagonist.
Though a spatio-temporal analysis is followed here as the method of research, the researcher refutes the essential inseparability of time and space, arguing that a spatial perspective predominates a postmodern society fretting from anxiety, loneliness, fragmentation, detachment, alienation and displacement.
The postmodern geocritical approach is applied to Jack London's "To Build A Fire" as this short story discusses elements which are germane to geocritical studies such as geographical boundaries, transgression, space, place, body, movements, life and death.
Such elements are brought together within the journey motif, a widespread spatial schema, which dominates the course of the story.
Not only does London use the journey as the traditional symbol of a quest, but he also employs it to structure his story.
Though critical approaches tend to investigate or evaluate specific aspects in literature, they ignore the role of space which works both as part of the setting and as an effective and interactive element in the development of action in any literary work.
The paper deduces London's disillusionment of the socio-economic changes that take place in America.
London's geographic factors in "To Build A Fire" reflect the dominantly vanishing social economic changes of the place it is set in.
American Psychological Association (APA)
al-Disi, Amani Abd Allah Abd al-Aziz. 2018. Loneliness and displacement : a postmodern Geocritical reading of Jack London's "To Build A Firei". Bulletin of the Faculty of Arts،Vol. 68, no. 93, pp.1-27.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1318953
Modern Language Association (MLA)
al-Disi, Amani Abd Allah Abd al-Aziz. Loneliness and displacement : a postmodern Geocritical reading of Jack London's "To Build A Firei". Bulletin of the Faculty of Arts Vol. 68, no. 93 (2018), pp.1-27.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1318953
American Medical Association (AMA)
al-Disi, Amani Abd Allah Abd al-Aziz. Loneliness and displacement : a postmodern Geocritical reading of Jack London's "To Build A Firei". Bulletin of the Faculty of Arts. 2018. Vol. 68, no. 93, pp.1-27.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1318953
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
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Record ID
BIM-1318953