The limits and the borders of the space: the spatial imagination in several novels about Shanghai and Barcelona

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Jingshu Xiang

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This paper takes some novels about Barcelona and Shanghai in the 20th century as the research object, to analyzes the meanings and the roles of "house", as the stage on which stories take place, in narration of novels. On this basis, this paper further discusses the special role of limits and borders in showing the meaning of "house", and reveals how the differences and conflicts between the two different spaces are clearly displayed in the narration of boundaries. In connection with this, the article also analyzes the narrative style and cultural meaning of urban public space elements, such as streets and rivers, as space boundaries in the novels.

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The limits and the borders of the space: the spatial imagination in several novels about Shanghai and Barcelona. (2021). VERBEIA. Revista De Estudios Filológicos. Journal of English and Spanish Studies, 7(6), 135-149. https://doi.org/10.57087/Verbeia.2021.4347

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