文化地理研究文化與地理之間的相互作用。將文化地理納為文學研究視角,引發了文學批評的爆發式創新,催生出文學地圖、文學景觀、地理詩學、空間批評等一系列跨學科文學研究。而文化地理之所以能夠激發文學批評的創新活力,一方面源于文學與地理之間天然的內在關聯,另一方面也源于文化地理學強烈的自我更新、自我超越的氣質和動力:這種氣質和動力不僅使文化地理自身經歷了從舊文化地理到新文化地理、再到非表征文化地理的裂變和發展,而且這種不斷質疑和革新的精神也與文學批評所秉承的反思傳統一拍即合,促成了文化地理的"文化轉向"與文學研究的"空間轉向"的對接和碰撞,二者在對話和交流中滋養了彼此學科的內涵,也促進了文學地理學交叉學科的深化和發展。

Cultural Geography studies the interaction between culture and geography.This interaction enables cultural geography to undergo three paradigm shifts: Berkeley School Cultural Geography, New Cultural Geography and Non-Representational Geography.Integrating cultural geography into literary criticism creates many new ideas: literary mapping,literary landscape, geo-criticism, spatial criticism and other interdisciplinary studies. This burgeoning geo-criticism and geo-poetics arise both out of the natural connection between literature and geography, and out of the self-transformation of cultural geography coupled with the self-interrogation and self-reflection of literary criticism. When the Cultural Turn in Cultural Geography encounters the Spatial Turn in literary studies, the dialogue and exchange between Cultural Geography and literary studies enrich each other and promote the development of the literary geography.