TimeandSpaceinUrbanAmericanFiction概述.pptVIP

Time and Space in Urban American Fiction美国都市小说中的时间与空间 Course Convener: Jiaying Cai Understanding Time and Space Traditional Notion of Time and Space Changing Notion of Time and Space in Modern and Postmodern times and its Implications Recent Social and Cultural Theories Concerning Time and Space TimeSpace in Urban Novels Traditional Notion of Time and Space “日出而作，日落而息” 黄帝时期：天干地支 打更:一夜分为五更,每更约两小时 沙漏 sandglass:滴漏, 燃香 钟表 天圆地方：对空间认识的局限 Changing Notion of Time and Space and its Implications (Modern Times) Mid-19th century to World War I: rapid expansion of railway system, reduction of journey times, “technologies of speed”, transportation within cities and towns is increased too, expansion of communications network: e.g. telegraph. End of the 20th century: an even acceleration in the pace of life: the invention and popularity of PC, mobile phones, internet, GPS, SATNAV, allows countries around the world to achieve synchronicity. Recent Social and Cultural Theories Concerning Time and Space Theories concerning space Theories concerning time Theorizing TimeSpace Theories concerning Space From the mid-to-late 1980s Urban geography (David Harvey) Psychogeography (Michel de Certeau, Guy Debord, and Will Self) Crime/Radical geography (David Schmid) Space and Power (Pierre Bourdieu: the bourgeois habitus, cultural capital, Doreen Massey ) Quotes “practical space is bodily space: it is oriented around both the physical structure of the body and the projects undertaken to fulfill the needs of the body” (Dillon, 1997:135) Quotes Space is nothing but the inscription of time in the world, spaces are the realizations, inscriptions in the simultaneity of the external world of a series of times, the rhythms of the city, the rhythms of urban population… the city will only be rethought and reconstructed on its current ruins when we have properly understood that the city is the deployment of time. (Kofman and Lebas, 1995: 16) Theories concerning Time 1.Timetables and rhythms