How Literary Locations Help Us Understand the World We Inhabit

Sue Norton, Technological University Dublin

RTE Brainstorm, Updated / Friday, 4 Sep 2020 14:19

Abstract

Woods do not signify, but the woods at night in a Robert Frost poem signify a lot. Fictionalized places in literature can carry meaning so compounded by layers of intention and expectation that they become sites of seduction, full of ambiguity and begging for interpretation.