This two-part paper, co-authored by the members of the Island Poetics Research Group, introduces a larger project on the poetic construction of islands in island fictions across media, genres, and geographical regions. Traditional island scholarship tends to discuss islands as tropes for a set of preconceived and fixed meanings (such as isolation, imprisonment, paradise, remoteness, etc.) and thus often bypasses the complex poetic processes through which islands come to be in literary texts. Our intervention in the debate seeks to offer a precise analysis of the practices and operations through which islands are conceived and reconceived. The two parts of this paper examine different modes of island (re)conception in 20thand 21st-century island fiction. They discuss fictional islands as particularly mobile spatial figures that raise the question of what an island is, refusing to offer easy answers and allowing for a reconsideration of the role of islands in contemporary discourse. Against potentially essentialist accounts of what islands ‘are’ and ‘mean’, our close readings of key moments within island narratives engage with the processes through which island spaces are constructed in different media. In this first part, we develop a phenomenology of fictional islands that focuses on the ways in which island topographies are constructed through the senses and through spatial practices. In our analysis, islands emerge through sight, sound, taste, smell, and touch (and frequently a confluence of these sensory experiences) or they are (re)conceived through the movements across and/or interaction with their topography.

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关于感知岛屿空间和岛屿制造的空间实践：岛上诗学介绍，第一部分

这份由两部分组成的论文由Island Poetics Research Group（岛屿诗学研究小组）的成员合着，介绍了一个更大的项目，涉及跨媒体，体裁和地理区域的岛屿小说中岛屿的诗学建设。传统的岛屿学术界倾向于将岛屿作为一系列先入为主的固定含义（例如隔离，监禁，天堂，偏僻等）的对立面进行讨论，因此常常绕开了将岛屿纳入文学文本的复杂诗意过程。我们在辩论中的干预旨在提供对岛屿构想和重新构想的做法和行动的精确分析。本文的两个部分探讨了20世纪和21世纪海岛小说中不同的海岛（再）观念模式。他们将虚构的岛屿讨论为特别具有流动性的空间人物，从而提出了一个岛屿是什么的问题，拒绝提供简单的答案，并允许重新考虑岛屿在当代话语中的作用。与可能的本质主义者对“岛”和“均值”的描述不同，我们对岛叙事中关键时刻的仔细阅读涉及到在不同媒体中构建岛空间的过程。在第一部分中，我们建立了虚构的岛屿现象学，重点研究了通过感官和空间实践构造岛屿地形的方式。在我们的分析中，岛屿是通过视觉，声音，味道，气味，