I have dealt with Cartographical approach and looking for more related approaches
I'd suggest an attempt to connect a system of personally significant places of memory (as Pierre Nora would understand them) with a set of spatially bound behavior patterns as characteristic to archaic but nevertheless still relevant structures of "memory systematizing". I used to publish on these matters at length - but mainly in Russian. If you don't read this language, some hints could be seen in:
https://www.academia.edu/11107008/Spatially_Determined_Behaviors_and_Religious_Representations_the_Srubna_Culture_Model_Southern_Russia_
if you do, lots of related material are in a book:
https://www.academia.edu/15276290/%D0%A2%D0%A0%D0%9E%D0%9F%D0%90_%D0%97%D0%92%D0%95%D0%A0%D0%98%D0%9D%D0%AB%D0%A5_%D0%A1%D0%9B%D0%9E%D0%92._%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%BE-%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B5_%D0%BA%D1%83%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%82%D1%83%D1%80%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B5_%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B4%D1%8B_%D0%B2_%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%B5%D0%B2%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B9%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B9_%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%86%D0%B8%D0%B8
if you'd like to discuss any questions (the pattern being applicable to modern texts etc) don't hesitate to contact me.
best wishes
Vadim Mikhailin
Dear Mohammad, the best suggestion would be Julian Wolfrey's book 'Introducing Criticism at 21 Century Criticism' in which he concerns 21st century's new approaches to Literature including Space Criticism. On this essay, you can find the both theoretical and methodological approaches of Space studies. Beside this remarkable source, you can also go though Michel Foucault's basic work 'Madness and Civilization'. But if I were you, I would also focus on the ways the names of characters are deployed- if any-, the social circumstances of the time of the poems in which they are written, historicity of the literary pieces, and the literary devices which carry hidden polemic and parodic significations. For the last one, you can refer to Bakhtin's translinguistic behaviours of language which he believed address outer world more reliably.
All the best for you with the success in your field of analysis.
Mohammed,
Very interesting and relevant point of entry into poetic expression.
Certain French poets' experimentation with typographical layout, and expanses of white page where we don't expect them could be worth looking at. I immediately think of André du Bouchet and Mallarmé for instance. I imagine there are others, in other traditions, to consider as well.
Dear Scot,
Thanks for your reply. What do you think of Foucault, David Rothman and Jeremy Bentham?
Mohammed,
Afraid to say I've heard of Bentham and Rothman, but haven't yet read them. Enjoyed Foucault when I read him, long ago... Hope your project's going well. Scott
Look this interesting reflection: https://www.academia.edu/15120620/_Mapas_imaginarios_de_mundos_reales_
The works by italian schollar Franco Moretti is also quite relevant: Atlas of the European Novel, 1800–1900 (1998), Graphs, Maps, Trees: Abstract Models for a Literary History (2005)
Check out ekphrasis, it is about a visual representations (architecture, paint, maps, etc.) described within a literary work.
https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/text/ekphrasis-poetry-confronting-art
Estimado Mohammed:
Un poco pasado de moda, pero LA POÉTIQUE DE L'ESPACE de Gaston BACHELARD es una referencia insoslayable.
Saludos
https://www.google.com.ar/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CBsQFjAAahUKEwjwx5eI-JXJAhUJGpAKHbKuDCQ&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philo-online.com%2FTEXTES%2FBACHELARD%2520Gaston%2520La%2520poetique%2520de%2520l%2520espace.pdf&usg=AFQjCNFhRayn_i_3RKH4EKqwSYiFX9zinA&bvm=bv.107467506,d.Y2I
Kenneth WHITE and his proposal on geopoetics is quite sugestive. See his Le Plateau de l’Albatros
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