Literature and Cartography: Theories, Histories, Genres by Anders Engberg-Pedersen The MIT Press | November 2017 | ISBN-10: 0262036746 | ePUB | 38.4 mb https://www.amazon.com/Literature-Cartography-Theories-Histories-Genres/dp/0262036746
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.
About the Author Anders Engberg-Pedersen is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Southern Denmark and the author of Empire of Chance: The Napoleonic Wars and the Disorder of Things.
CONTENTS Title page Copyright page Acknowledgments Introduction—Estranging the Map: On Literature and Cartography I Theories and Methodologies 1 Cartographic Fiction 2 Literary Cartography: Mapping as Method 3 The (Un)Mappability of Literature 4 Cartographic Tropes: From Kant’s Maps to Foucault’s Topology 5 The Language of Cartography: Borges as Mapmaker II Histories and Contexts 6 Muses of Cartography: Charting Odysseus from Homer to Joyce 7 Diagrammatic Thought in Medieval Literature 8 Hybrid Maps: Cartography and Literature in Spanish Imperial Expansion, Sixteenth Century 9 Bend of the Baroque: Toward a Literary Hydrography in France 10 Goethe and the Cartographic Representation of Nature around 1800 11 Conceptualizing the Novel Map: Nineteenth-Century French Literary Cartography 12 African Cartographies in Motion III Genres and Themes 13 Popular Map Genres in American Literature 14 Map Line Narratives 15 Material Cartography: João Guimarães Rosa’s Paratexts 16 Cartographies of War: Star Charts, Topographic Maps, War Games Conclusion Contributors Index
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