Robert Tally
American academic in literature
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Robert T. Tally Jr. is a professor of English at Texas State University. His research and teaching focuses on the relations among space, narrative, and representation, particularly in U.S. and comparative literature, and he is active in the emerging scholarly fields of geocriticism, literary geography, and the spatial humanities. Tally is the editor of "Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies," a Palgrave Macmillan book series established in 2013. The translator of Bertrand Westphal's Geocriticism: Real and Fictional Spaces and the editor of Geocritical Explorations, In addition to his numerous essays on literature, criticism, and theory, Tally has written books on Herman Melville, Edgar Allan Poe, Kurt Vonnegut, and J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, as well as a critical introduction to the work of literary critic and theorist Fredric Jameson.
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Published Works
- Geocriticism: Real and Fictional Spaces (2011) (167)
- Long-Life Concrete Pavements in Europe and Canada (2007) (63)
- Geocritical explorations : space, place, and mapping in literary and cultural studies (2011) (50)
- The Routledge Handbook of Literature and Space (2017) (32)
- Literary cartographies : spatiality, representation, and narrative (2014) (28)
- Utopia in the Age of Globalization: Space, Representation, and the World-System (2013) (22)
- The Agony of the Political. A review of Chantal Mouffe, On the Political (London: Routledge, 2005) (2007) (16)
- Kurt Vonnegut and the American Novel: A Postmodern Iconography (2011) (14)
- Melville, Mapping and Globalization: Literary Cartography in the American Baroque Writer (2009) (14)
- On Literary Cartography: Narrative as a Spatially Symbolic Act (2010) (13)
- Fredric Jameson: The Project of Dialectical Criticism (2014) (12)
- Review of Franco Moretti's Graphs, Maps, Trees: Abstract Models for a Literary History (2007) (12)
- The plausible world : a geocritical approach to space, place, and maps (2013) (11)
- Ecocriticism and Geocriticism (2016) (11)
- Poe and the Subversion of American Literature: Satire, Fantasy, Critique (2014) (11)
- The End-of-the-World as World System (2019) (10)
- Introduction: On Geocriticism (2011) (9)
- Let Us Now Praise Famous Orcs: Simple Humanity in Tolkien's Inhuman Creatures (2010) (8)
- Literary Cartography: Space, Representation, and Narrative (2008) (8)
- Utopia in the Age of Globalization (2013) (8)
- Introduction: Mapping Narratives (2014) (8)
- Nomadography: The ‘Early’ Deleuze and the History of Philosophy (2010) (6)
- Narrating Space/Spatializing Narrative: Where Narrative Theory and Geography Meet by Marie-Laure Ryan, Kenneth Foote, and Maoz Azaryahu (2017) (5)
- Anti-Ishmael: Novel Beginnings in Moby-Dick (2007) (5)
- The Agony of the Political (2007) (5)
- "Spaces that before were blank": Truth and Narrative Form in Melville's South Seas Cartography (2007) (5)
- Introduction: The World, the Text, and the Geocritic (2015) (4)
- The Geocritical Legacies of Edward W. Said (2015) (4)
- The geocritical legacies of Edward W. Said : spatiality, critical humanism, and comparative literature (2015) (4)
- Introduction: Ecocritical Geographies, Geocritical Ecologies, and the Spaces of Modernity (2016) (4)
- Spatial Literary Studies (2020) (3)
- Beyond the Flaming Walls of the World: Fantasy, Alterity, and the Postnational Condition (2015) (3)
- In the Deserts of Cartography: Building, Dwelling, Mapping (2018) (3)
- Shockwaves of Possibility: Essays on Science Fiction, Globalization, and Utopia (2017) (3)
- Geocriticism and Classic American Literature (2008) (3)
- Bleeping Mark Twain? Censorship, Huckleberry Finn, and the Functions of Literature (2013) (3)
- 'We Are What We Pretend to Be': Existential Angst in Vonnegut’s Mother Night (2009) (3)
- A Postmodern Iconography: Vonnegut and the Great American Novel (2008) (2)
- Whale as a Dish: Culinary Rhetoric and the Discourse of Power in Moby-Dick (2009) (2)
- Meta-Capital: Culture and Financial Derivatives (2010) (2)
- The Way of the Wizarding World: Harry Potter and the Magical Bildungsroman (2012) (2)
- Tolkien’s Geopolitical Fantasy: Spatial Narrative in The Lord of the Rings (2016) (2)
- World Literature and Its Discontents (2014) (2)
- Believing in America: The Politics of American Studies in a Postnational Era (2006) (2)
- Teaching Space, Place, and Literature (2017) (2)
- Power to the Imagination (2013) (2)
- Spatiality’s Mirrors: Reflections on Literary Cartography (2015) (2)
- The spatial turn (2012) (1)
- Demonizing the Enemy, Literally: Tolkien, Orcs, and the Sense of the World Wars (2019) (1)
- Boundless Mystification (2020) (1)
- Apocalypse in the Optative Mood: Galápagos, or, Starting Over (2009) (1)
- Introduction : Spaces of the Text: Literary Studies After the Spatial Turn (2020) (1)
- Critique Unlimited (2020) (1)
- Literature Proper: Genre Problems in an Early American Literature Survey (2007) (1)
- Tolkien and the Modernists: Literary Responses to the Dark New Days of the 20th Century (2015) (1)
- Panel Paper: Towards Geospatial Humanities: Reflections from Two Panels (2020) (1)
- Reading Adorno by the Pool; or, Critical Theory in a Postcritical Era (2019) (1)
- Reason and Revolution Redux: Antonio Negri's Political Descartes (2008) (1)
- Introduction to Focus: Situating Geocriticism (2016) (1)
- Post-American Literature (2011) (1)
- The New Public Intellectual: Politics, Theory, and the Public Sphere eds. by Jeffrey R. Di Leo and Peter Hitchcock (review) (2017) (1)
- Said, Marxism, and Spatiality: Wars of Position in Oppositional Criticism (2020) (1)
- On Always Historicizing: The Dialectic of Utopia and Ideology Today (2022) (1)
- Swerve, Trope, Peripety: Turning Points in Criticism and Theory (2018) (0)
- In the Suburbs of Amaurotum: Fantasy, Utopia and Literary Cartography (2014) (0)
- Review of Jonathan Arac: The Emergence of American Literary Narrative, 1820-1860 (2007) (0)
- Introduction (2020) (0)
- The Nightmare of the Unknowable, or, Poe's Inscrutability (2010) (0)
- A Meditation on the Impossible (2013) (0)
- Introduction: “A map of the world that does not include Utopia” (2013) (0)
- The International Relations of Middle-Earth: Learning from the Lord of the Rings (2013) (0)
- Editors' Introduction: Vonnegut's Sense of Humor (2012) (0)
- Edward Said’s Culture and Imperialism at Twenty-Five (2018) (0)
- Bios (2008) (0)
- Reading Utopia in Dark Times (2020) (0)
- Rival Modes of Truth-Telling in Antebellum American Letters (2012) (0)
- Redefining the Three Rs…Recovery, Reinvestment, and Reauthorization (2009) (0)
- The Critical Situation: Vexed Perspectives in Postmodern Literary Studies (2023) (0)
- DETESTABLE AS JOINT -STOCK COMPANIES OR NATIONS : MELVILLE AND THE INTERNATIONAL (2009) (0)
- The Poetics of Descent: Irreversible Narrative in Poe's "MS. Found in a Bottle" (2007) (0)
- Fredric Jameson's The Political Unconscious— Forty Years On (2022) (0)
- SIU Local Organic Garden Initiative of Carbondale (2009) (0)
- Canon to Right of Them, Canon to Left (2021) (0)
- The End of Utopia at the Present Time (2013) (0)
- An American Bakhtin: Jonathan Arac, or, the Vocation of the Critic in the Age of the Novel (2015) (0)
- Interrogating the "Literary" in Spatial Studies: An Interview with Robert T. Tally Jr. (2022) (0)
- Book review: Heterotopia and Globalisation in the Twenty-First Century (2020) (0)
- Introduction to Focus: A Life in Theory (2018) (0)
- Herman Melville: Between Charlemagne and the Antemosaic Cosmic Man: Race, Class, and the Crisis of Bourgeois Ideology in the American Renaissance Writer (2009) (0)
- The Aesthetics of Distance: Space, Ideology, and Critique in the Study of World Literature (2020) (0)
- Fredric Jameson (1934–) (2020) (0)
- Financial Oversight of the Federal-aid Program (2011) (0)
- MLA 2020 Roundtable Proposal (accepted) - Reading Utopia in Dark Times (2019) (0)
- Editor's Column: Witnessing Catastrophe, Interpreting Catastrophe (2017) (0)
- Geocriticism: Mapping the Spaces of Literature (2009) (0)
- Notes on Contributors (2007) (0)
- NOVEL BEGINNINGS IN MOBY-DICK (2007) (0)
- On Political Formalism (2020) (0)
- Outsider Theory: Intellectual Histories of Unorthodox Ideas by Jonathan P. Eburne (review) (2019) (0)
- Bathsheba's Stomach; or, Poiesis and Criticism in Paul A. Bové's Love's Shadow (2021) (0)
- Three Rings for the Elven Kings: Trilogizing Tolkien in Print and Film (2017) (0)
- The Space of the Novel (2018) (0)
- Book Reviews (1994) (0)
- Spatial Literary Studies Versus Literary Geography? (2019) (0)
- In the File Drawer Labeled ‘Science Fiction’: Genre after the Age of the Novel (2017) (0)
- J. R. R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit" (2022) (0)
- The Whale in the World: Using Moby-Dick in a General Education Course (2008) (0)
- Not a Nation, So Much as a World (2015) (0)
- Spaces of Narrative: Melville's Literary Cartography (2008) (0)
- Mapping the Postnational World System (2013) (0)
- Keeping Up with the Fishes (2018) (0)
- Monstrous Accumulation: Topographies of Fear in an Era of Globalization (2020) (0)
- The Novel and the Map: Spatiotemporal Form and Discourse in Literary Cartography (2017) (0)
- Worlding Spatiality Studies (2022) (0)
- Critique and its discontents (2020) (0)
- Poe’s Alien Poetics (2017) (0)
- Formed by Place: Spatiality, Irony, and Empire in Conrad's 'An Outpost of Progress' (2016) (0)
- Canon-Fodder: Vonnegut in the Library of America (2012) (0)
- Conclusion: Hic Sunt Dracones (2013) (0)
- Thank you to reviewers (2020) (0)
- Deep Map Country: Literary Cartography of the Great Plains by Susan Naramore Maher (review) (2015) (0)
- The Whale in the World (2008) (0)
- Amy J. Elias and Christian Moraru, eds., The Planetary Turn: Relationality and Geoaesthetics in the Twenty-First Century (2016) (0)
- In the Suburbs of Amaurotum (2018) (0)
- An Anagogical Education (2017) (0)
- Introduction: You are here (2012) (0)
- Mundus Totus Exilium Est: Reflections on the Critic in Exile (2015) (0)
- Bleeping Mark Twain (2014) (0)
- Other Spaces Are Still Possible : Marcuse , Theory , and ‘ The End of Utopia ’ Today (2011) (0)
- Project Title: Spaces of Narrative: Melville's Literary Cartography (2009) (0)
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