GEOCRITICISM AND INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION: TOWARDS THE INTERDISCIPLINARY SYNTHESIS IN UKRAINIAN LITERARY STUDIES
Abstract
This paper focuses on the interaction between geocriticism and the theory of intercultural communication within modern literary research into space. The article aims to identify conceptual convergences and divergences between geocriticism and the theory of intercultural communication, to determine their analytical potential for contemporary literary studies, and to outline the possibilities for interdisciplinary synthesis in the study of artistic space. Although these fields arise from different disciplinary traditions, both focus on the experience of the Other and on the mechanisms through which space shapes perception, identity, and cultural interaction. In intercultural communication, space serves as a cultural code that regulates behaviour, including proxemics, territoriality, and patterns of social interaction. Geocriticism, by contrast, conceptualises space as a multilayered narrative construct formed through the interplay of real, imagined, and textual representations, foregrounding questions of memory, ideology, and symbolic power. The study demonstrates that the strongest intersections occur in the analysis of place, mobility, liminality, and the outsider’s gaze, as well as in the investigation of intermedial spatial forms where images of place circulate across literature, cartography, visual media, and digital platforms. At the same time, the article identifies essential methodological differences related to the nature of the research object, disciplinary goals, and temporal perspectives. The synthesis of geocritical and intercultural approaches is demonstrated to provide a productive analytical framework for examining hybrid identities, transitional spaces, and multimedia landscapes in which space functions as an active communicative agent. It is concluded that this interdisciplinary integration expands the methodological potential of literary studies by enabling a more nuanced interpretation of space as a culturally charged, polyphonic mode of communication.
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