Sense of belonging determined by spatial markers in Nino Ricci's In a Glass House

Název: Sense of belonging determined by spatial markers in Nino Ricci's In a Glass House
Zdrojový dokument: Variations on community: the Canadian space. Otrísalová, Lucia (editor); Martonyi, Éva (editor). 1st edition Brno: Masaryk University, 2013, pp. 221-226
Rozsah
221-226
Typ
Článek
Jazyk
anglicky
Přístupová práva
otevřený přístup
Licence: Neurčená licence
Popis
The paper discusses Nino Ricci's novel In a Glass House from the point-of-view of spatial representation. My aim is to illustrate that the main protagonist's relations with places play an essential role in the construction of his unstable identity. The idiosyncratic features of various houses, among other places, are analyzed demonstrating the fact that the space we encounter in this place-ridden novel is that of liminal space. My aim is to prove that here the sense of belonging is in fact determined by dislocation and displacement, hence the importance of the detailed description of spatial insecurity over the course of the narrative.
Je me propose d'étudier un roman de Nino Ricci, In a Glass House, du point de vue de la représentation spatiale. Il s'agit de montrer que le protagoniste entretient avec les lieux des rapports qui jouent un rôle essentiel dans la constructions de son instable identité. Seront examinées, entre autres lieux, différent maisons, dont les traits "idiosynchrasiques" suggèrent la nature liminale de l'espace dans ce roman entièrement dominé, pour ainsi dire, par l'espace. L'étude cherche à prouver l'ideé qu'ici, le sens de l'appartenance est en fait déterminé par la dislocation et le déplacement, d'où l'importance, tout le long du récit, d'une description détaillée de l'insécurité spatiale.
Note
  • Research for this article was funded by TÁMOP 4.2.2/B-10/1-2010-0024, as part of the new Széchenyi Plan.
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