The Concept of the Postmodernist Spatial Construction in Hawksmoor

Foreign Literature Studies ›› 2017, Vol. 39 ›› Issue (5): 63-73.

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The Concept of the Postmodernist Spatial Construction in Hawksmoor

Xiao Jinlong

Online:2017-10-25 Published:2022-06-15
About author:Xiao Jinlong, Ph.D. in literature, is professor at School of Liberal Arts, Nanjing University (Nanjing 210023, China). His major areas of study include British literature and Western literary theory. Email:xiaojl600115@sina.com
Supported by:
“Research on Formal Renovation of British Postmodernist Novels” (13BWW047), sponsored by National Social Science Fund of China

Abstract

Abstract: The contemporary distinguished British writer Peter Ackroyd's magnum opus Hawksmoor has an outstanding feature, that is, the focus on the six Christian churches, a spatial landscape of London. On the surface, the novel represents the situation and process of people's construction of spatial image and objects. But in essence, it discloses the construction law of the world space in a literary metaphor. It clearly expresses Ackroyd's concept of postmodernist spatial construction and reflects the latest view on space in the contemporary Western intellectual field, which is of great ideological value to us.

Key words: Peter Ackroyd, post-structuralism, space

Xiao Jinlong. The Concept of the Postmodernist Spatial Construction in Hawksmoor[J]. Foreign Literature Studies, 2017, 39(5): 63-73.

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