Spatial poetics of the story “Number 13” by M. R. James
... artistic depiction of these processes. The duality of the chronotope corresponds to the principle of the liminality of space (room 13 in the hotel appears at night and disappears during the day). Thus, the diversity of spatiopoetics, the variability of oneiric spaces, the liminality of the Gothic toposes, the permeability and impenetrability of the borders of the surreal space stand out as the main means for modeling the text.
Nikiforova A.A.
gothic novel, spatiopoetics, space, topos, oneiric space, liminality,...
