Page and Place : Ongoing Compositions of Plot.

Intro -- Page and Place: Ongoing Compositions of Plot -- Contents -- Chapter 1. Crossing the breach between page and place: illuminating the relations between location and identity -- PART I - CAPITAL CARDIFF -- Chapter 2. Stalking the soul of the city: a finchian plotline through Cardiff Bay -- Chapter 3. Plotting relations: writing roots into the heart of Cardiff -- Chapter 4. Edge(y) territories: the hyperlocal world of Lloyd Robson -- Chapter 5. Tessa Hadley's Roath: the meeting place of suburban dreams -- PART II - KALEIDOSCOPIC ABERYSTWYTH -- Chapter 6. At the spinning extremes of existence: the thriving boiling seething places of Niall Griffiths -- Chapter 7. One part memory and one part imagination: the entangled plots of Richard Collins -- Chapter 8. Poetic refraction and stovepipe hats: the gumshoe mystery that is Malcolm Pryce's Aberystwyth -- PART III -- NATIONS -- Chapter 9. Reading gave me worlds: Gillian Clarke's autobiographical plotlines -- Chapter 10. Durability and change: eternity and belonging in the plots of Grahame Davies -- PART IV - BORDERLANDS -- Chapter 11. Entangling Owen Sheers: 'a conversation of place and page over time' -- Chapter 12. Geography is destiny: Who and where is Iain Sinclair? -- Bibliography -- Appeared earlier in the SPATIAL PRACTICES: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY SERIES IN CULTURAL HISTORY, GEOGRAPHY AND LITERATURE.

If people are geographical beings, what can fiction tell us about this truth? Literature can help us understand the nature of the relations between people and place, how humans create connections between their identities and their geographies, and how these can be threatened and lost.

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