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Creative dynamics : diagrammatic strategies in narrative / Christina Ljungberg.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ljungberg, Christina.
- Series:
- Iconicity in Language and Literature
- Iconicity in language and literature, 1873-5037 ; v. 11
- Iconicity in Language and Literature ; 11
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Iconicity (Linguistics).
- Creativity (Linguistics).
- Cognitive grammar.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (198 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- How do readers make sense of a picture, a photograph, or a map in literary narratives in which visual signs play a critical role? How do authors accomplish their various objectives in constructing such complex texts? What strategies and techniques do they use to project fictional worlds and to provide their readers with the means for orienting themselves there? This book investigates the dynamics of the imaginary diagrams created by cartographers, photographers, and writers of narratives, giving ample evidence of how mapping practices have inspired the imagination of a vast number of authors f
- Contents:
- Mapping practices
- Cartographic writing
- Reading as remapping: cartographic performance
- Postcolonial mappings
- Remapping the past: the case of photography
- Cognitive approaches to textual narratives.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9781283894937
- 1283894939
- 9789027273222
- 9027273227
- OCLC:
- 815672081
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