Literature and cartography : theories, histories, genres / edited by Anders Engberg-Pedersen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Engberg-Pedersen, Anders, editor.

Series:

MIT Press Ser.

The MIT Press Ser.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cartography in literature.

Maps in literature.

Ethnology in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 472 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press, [2017]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Literary authors have frequently called on elements of cartography to ground fictional space, to visualize sites, and to help readers get their bearings in the imaginative world of the text. Today, the convergence of digital mapping and globalization has spurred a cartographic turn in literature. This book gathers leading scholars to consider the relationship of literature and cartography. Generously illustrated with full-color maps and visualizations, it offers the first systematic overview of an emerging approach to the study of literature. The literary map is not merely an illustrative guide but represents a set of relations and tensions that raise questions about representation, fiction, and space. Is literature even mappable? In exploring the cartographic components of literature, the contributors have not only brought literary theory to bear on the map but have also enriched the vocabulary and perspectives of literary studies with cartographic terms. After establishing the theoretical and methodological terrain, they trace important developments in the history of literary cartography, considering topics that include Homer and Joyce, Goethe and the representation of nature, and African cartographies. Finally, they consider cartographic genres that reveal the broader connections between texts and maps, discussing literary map genres in American literature and the coexistence of image and text in early maps. When cartographic aspirations outstripped factual knowledge, mapmakers turned to textual fictions.

Contents:

I Theories and Methodologies 19

1 Cartographic Fiction / Jean-Marc Besse Besse, Jean-Marc 21

2 Literary Cartography: Mapping as Method / Barbara Piatti Piatti, Barbara 45

3 The (Un)Mappability of Literature / Robert Stockhammer Stockhammer, Robert 73

4 Cartographic Tropes: From Kant's Maps to Foucault's Topology / Oliver Simons Simons, Oliver 99

5 The Language of Cartography: Borges as Mapmaker / Bruno Bosteels Bosteels, Bruno 119

II Histories and Contexts 141

6 Muses of Cartography: Charting Odysseus from Homer to Joyce / Burkhardt Wolf Wolf, Burkhardt 143

7 Diagrammatic Thought in Medieval Literature / Simone Pinet Pinet, Simone 173

8 Hybrid Maps: Cartography and Literature in Spanish Imperial Expansion, Sixteenth Century / Ricardo Padrón Padrón, Ricardo 199

9 Bend of the Baroque: Toward a Literary Hydrography in France / Tom Conley Conley, Tom 219

10 Goethe and the Cartographic Representation of Nature around 1800 / John K. Noyes Noyes, John K. 253

11 Conceptualizing the Novel Map: Nineteenth-Century French Literary Cartography / Patrick M. Bray Bray, Patrick M. 279

12 African Cartographies in Motion / Dominic Thomas Thomas, Dominic 299

III Genres and Themes 323

13 Popular Map Genres in American Literature / Martin Brückner Brückner, Martin 325

14 Map Line Narratives / Jörg Dünne Dünne, Jörg 361

15 Material Cartography: João Guimarães Rosa's Paratexts / Clara Rowland Rowland, Clara 391

16 Cartographies of War: Star Charts, Topographic Maps, War Games / Anders Engberg-Pedersen Engberg-Pedersen, Anders 411.

Notes:

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

9780262342247

0262342243

OCLC:

1013540928

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