ABSTRACT
Space and place are key components of any fictional or non-fictional ('natural') storyworld. This chapter proposes to explain the concept of narrative spatialization, as defined by David Herman and Marie-Laure Ryan, to introduce principal interpretative tools which may be used in the analysis of space and place in fictional texts in undergraduate, as well as graduate courses on literature. It discusses such concepts and tools in relation to Dave Eggers's A Hologram for the King. As outlined by Herman and Ryan, the cognitive mapping of any storyworld implies the awareness of the fact that stories are made out of actions performed by agents acting upon each other and upon objects situated within a specific space containing definite, verbally delineated places. The students' progress with the spatial diagrams, that is, through the cognitive reading process, helped reconstruct and map ideologically connoted, historically and culturally specific narrative spaces.
