Chronological Resonance and the Territorial Imperative—On the Recurrent Narrative of Space in Peter Ackroyd's Novels
As a major scholar of contemporary London psychogeography renaissance,Peter Ackroyd fuses the recurrent narrative of space with the notions of chronological resonance and territorial imperative of occultism in his novels.The paper attempts to uncover the intrinsic links between the recurrent narrative of space and Akroyd's psychogeograhy notions of chronological resonance and territorial imperative,and argues that recurrent narrative of space is a spatial narrative strategy which bridges the gap between the mythological space and the realistic space in London.It is the core culture code which contains the historical,cognitive and cultural identities of the London city and is transformed into the narrative form and validates chronological resonance and territorial imperative of Peter Ackroyd's spatial philosophy,i.e.his self-created concepts of psychogeography.By means of spatial narrative strategy of recurrent narrative,Akcroyd actively responds to spatial form experiment of modernism and carries on the visionary tradition in British psychogeography literature.The instrinsic links between inhabitants and the space are thereby revealed and the uncanny narrative effect is achieved and so an occult world which couples the past and the present is enchantingly created as well.
Peter Ackroydchronological resonancethe territorial imperativespatial recurrence
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