Walking the Streets with Bunyan from Grace Abounding to The Holy War

[...]space has agency conferred by human activity: its nature is dynamic and not static to the point that physical space 'has no reality without the energy that is deployed within it'. Space means movement: it 'exists when one takes into consideration vectors of direction, velocities,...

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Published inBunyan studies no. 23; pp. 7 - 23
Main Author Gay, David
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Newcastle Upon Tyne Northumbria University, Department of Humanities, Faculty of Arts, Design and Social Sciences 01.01.2019
Subjects
Allegory
Ambiguity
Autobiographies
Blake, William (1757-1827)
British & Irish literature
Bunyan, John (1628-1688)
English literature
Epic literature
Literary criticism
Literary devices
Metaphor
Modern literature
Morality
Multiculturalism & pluralism
Narrative techniques
Narratives
Puritanism
Readers
Reading
Religion
Religious wars
Roads & highways
Space
Spirituality
Urban areas
Walking
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Summary:[...]space has agency conferred by human activity: its nature is dynamic and not static to the point that physical space 'has no reality without the energy that is deployed within it'. Space means movement: it 'exists when one takes into consideration vectors of direction, velocities, and time variables. [...]space is composed of intersections of mobile elements.' [...]we are mindful that Mansoul is figuratively a single person subsuming the extended metaphor of urban space into his (or her) consciousness. [...]the eye at Eyegate in the frontispiece seems to stare towards us, raising our awareness of our roles as readers by constructing a reciprocity of reader and urban text as mediated by the author positioned between us and the town. The first fixed point is an Anglican church: 'because I knew no better, I fell in very eagerly with the Religion of the times, to wit, to go to Church twice a day, and that too with the foremost, and there should very devoutly both say and sing as others did; yet retaining my wicked life'.10 The church in this passage is a site for the production of conformity in three aspects.
ISSN:0954-0970