“文学空间研究”三人谈——罗伯特·塔利访谈录

A Dialogue on “Spatial Literary Studies”: An Interview with Robert T. Tally Jr.

本文是对美国文学空间研究领军学者罗伯特·塔利的访谈,也是关于"文学空间研究"的一次对话(2019年11月,宁波大学)。塔利认为,"文学空间研究"概念涵盖面很广,可用于指称任何关于聚焦空间、地方和绘图的研究,如地理批评、地理诗学、空间人文研究等。但"文学空间研究"不应被泛化,也不应成为一个标签。文学空间研究首先属于文学研究的一个分支;其次,(文学)空间性是此类研究的核心。塔利还就地理批评、空间批评、文学地理学、处所意识等概念做了仔细辨析,并赞同应当区分"空间"与"地理"、"spatial"与"geo-"。关于文学空间研究的新趋势,塔利认为以下领域值得关注:数字人文和空间人文的结合,女性主义地理批评,批判性地域主义,类型小说,流动性研究等。

This article is an interview with Robert T. Tally Jr., a leading scholar of Spatial Literary Studies in the United States, and is also a dialogue about "spatial literary studies"(at Ningbo University in November, 2019). Tally claims that the concept of "spatial literary studies" can broadly encompass almost any approach to the text that focuses attention on space, place, and mapping, such as geocriticism, geopoetics, the spatial humanities, etc. However, this concept should not be over-generalized or deemed as a label. The core of spatial literary studies, which are first of all a sub-field of literature, is(literary) spatiality. Tally also explains the distinctions between some similar and relevant concepts, such as geocriticism, spatial criticism, literary geography, and topophrenia, as well as distinguishes "space" from "geography", "spatial" from "geo-." With respect to the new trend of spatial literary studies, Tally observes that the following deserve much attention: the combination of digital humanities and spatial humanities, feminist geography, critical regionalism, genre fiction, mobility study, etc.