CONSTRUCTING TEMPORALITY: SPATIAL COGNITION AND LITERARY IMAGINATION.
The spatialization of time in literary theory offers an important instrument for understanding the representation and experience of temporality in texts in various historical and aesthetic contexts. This paper traces the genealogy of spatialized temporality, from classical poetics to contemporary na...
| Publicado en: | Cogito (2066-7094) Vol. 17; no. 4; pp. 262 - 284 |
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| Formato: | Literary Criticism |
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Dimitrie Cantemir Christian University
Dec2025
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