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Among the various approaches to the study of narrative, space has consistently been the poor relation. This is particularly true in narratology. Although Genette put forward an explanatory model taking into account narrative voice, mode and time, he left to others the task of building a model for space. Very few have risen to the challenge : in fact, we possess no set of descriptive categories for space as narrative form. The object of this essay is in some measure to supply this lacuna. It seeks to define a set of narratological categories capable of describing space as an autonomous narrative form contributing to the total meaning of narrative by the configuration of space within works through narration.
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Georg Lukàcs' classic utterance on Lost Illusions (1935) forever cast literary critics as “prostitutes exploited” by the capitalist merchandising of literature. In so doing, and while acknowledging both the critic's place in the production cycle of books and his role as mediator of a given literary oeuvre, Lukàcs nonetheless failed to grasp a key component of a critic's role in the 1830s. Back then, laudatory comments were freely bestowed just as easily as they could be bought, whether as an expression of literary camaraderie or as part of a more or less implied exchange of favours between journalist-writers. This article will look at the romantic era's ambivalence in the depiction of literary critics, sometimes venal, sometimes selfless.