SPAȚIUL ÎN LITERATURĂ. ÎNTRE HETEROTOPIILE LUI FOUCAULT ȘI ABORDĂRILE GEOCRITICE ACTUALE
THE CONCEPT OF SPACE IN LITERATURE. BETWEEN FOUCAULT’S HETEROTOPIAS AND PRESENT GEOCRITICAL APPROACHES

Summary/Abstract: Kantian philosophy postulates time and space as two fundamental categories of human experience. Nevertheless, cultural tradition has always favoured the historicity of humanity, imposing, at least for the Western thinking, an essentially temporal discourse. The narrative theories anterior to the spatial turn phenomenon seem to reiterate, at micro scale, the temporal philosophical thinking pattern as well. They have brought about an approach of the literary text as a sequence of events, implicitly establishing a temporal dominance on narration, disregarding the spatial factor. Under these circumstances, our approach aims to underline the main instants which, starting with end of the previous century, influenced the new cultural paradigm established together with the spatial turn phenomenon.We aim to develop a methodological analysis study as well, trying to identify the intersection of the classical approaches of space and the theories developed by the new spatial literary studies. An interdisciplinary approach will highlight concepts taken from literary geography, geocriticism and spatial narrative.Such an approach will lead to identifying possible markers which served as a base for an essential deconstruction of the traditional manner of seeing the space.To summarize, starting from Bertrand Westphal’s epistemology and moving to present methodological directions brought byRobert Tally Jr., Franco Moretti and Bernard Debarbieux, the geocritical approach we present has the space in the center of literature understanding.

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