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Explores how physical space is represented and affects the work of two British novelists. Of Spaces and Ideas provides a deeper insight into the work of two contemporary British novelists, Jim Crace and Simon Mawer, with a particular emphasis on spatial sensibility as one of the defining elements of their poetics. Drawing on a range of literary-theoretical approaches to space, the study analyzes selected novels by the two writers to demonstrate the ways in which they render space and place and, above all, the ways in which their spatial representations allow them to express the key ideas behind their stories, namely those of identity, history, and the relationship between an individual and the environment in which they live.

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“A valuable contribution to the scholarship on contemporary British fiction.” * Bozena Kucala, Jagiellonian University in Kraków * “This is a due contribution to the work of Jim Crace and Simon Mawer that proves particularly receptive to the contemporary spatial focus in critical studies. The analyzed texts are presented both as novels and as works of ideas; they do not belong to a specific genre but reveal an interdisciplinary creative approach.” * Sidia Fiorato, University of Verona *

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Petr Chalupský is associate professor and head of the Department of English Language and Literature at Charles University’s Faculty of Education. Tereza Topolovská is assistant professor at the Department of English Language and Literature at Charles University’s Faculty of Education.

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