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12 lut 2017 · Mapping Across Academia. Andrew Frayn. 921 Accesses. Abstract. This chapter examines the resistance in literary criticism to making maps. Literary analysis is deeply invested in the construction of space and associated theories, but these have rarely been cartographical.
Literary cartography is a set of practices for mapping and making legible spatial relations within a literary world. In comparison to the concepts of geography or setting, literary cartography has been far more sporadically practiced. Literary maps have, nevertheless, appeared in a variety of literary periods, genres, and schools of literary ...
15 lis 2022 · Focusing on the ontological aspects of the practice of literary cartography, which has emerged in the last two decades, Fangyun Guo explores three fundamental features of literary maps, namely, ideologicality, visual-textual narrationality, and ontological...
19 lis 2013 · As the authors show, providing several examples, literary texts reflect (and play) on: the peculiar visual language of maps; maps as scaled-down, simplified, generalized, abstracted, selected, synchronized versions of reality; the symbolic and metaphorical content of maps; the limits and the intentions of cartographic communication; the ...
9 paź 2020 · Barbara Piatti’s essay highlights some of the innovative projects she has led (e.g., “A Literary Atlas of Europe”), to explore the hermeneutic possibilities of mapping literary spaces that correspond to geospace.
This paper outlines the field of “mapping literature”, discusses some reasons for the apparent difficulties in doing so and argues why we nevertheless should further develop this – currently still marginal – thread of literary studies by embracing both the potential
20 sty 2022 · First, they highlight the ortgebunden, place-bound nature of literary forms: each of them with its peculiar geometry, its boundaries, its spatial taboos and favorite routes. And then, maps bring to light the internal logic of narrative: the semiotic domain around which a plot coalesces and self-organizes.
