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As the preceding chapter briefly explained, the conceptual platform supporting this exploration in literary geography is the idea that a work happens in the course of intermingled processes of writing, publishing, and reading and that as a result, because this intermingling is inevitably spatial, the work as it emerges can be understood as a geographical event, or a series of connected events, which have been unfolding (and continue to unfold) in space and time. As a result, this study of McCann’s novel is not only about the spatiality of The Great World but also a part of that spatiality. It further means that this book about literary geography, itself a written-and-read work emerging through spatial processes of production and reception, is a geographical event with extensions in time and space.
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Hones, S. (2014). The Event of the Novel. In: Literary Geographies. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137413130_2
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