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(2015) Spatiality and symbolic expression, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.

The space of language and the place of literature

Paolo Bartoloni

pp. 129-153

Taking as its point of departure Heidegger's famous claim that "language is the house of being," this chapter mobilizes the dwelling metaphor to explore diverse modalities of inhabiting language according to particular forms of symbolic expression as they come to be employed in twentieth-century literature and thought. In this context, the Abstract-Collective zone of language is understood simultaneously as the generalized and abstract universal notion of a shared co-belonging and mutual appropriation of language and being, as well as the particular and concrete place from within which each one of us operates and reaches out to the world through his/her singular encounter and correlation with language.

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DOI: 10.1057/9781137488510_7

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Bartoloni, P. (2015)., The space of language and the place of literature, in B. Richardson (ed.), Spatiality and symbolic expression, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 129-153.

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