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geographical patterns within and between literary traditions. The book’s design-ers conceived of a simple method for overlaying toponyms, or place-names, on maps that corresponded roughly to maps that were contemporaneous with the setting of the fiction or the sociohistorical context.
Jul 4, 2017 · All of these theorizations emphasize the necessity for any mapping of the global space to move beyond the canonical opposition of high and low, or the spatial one of core and periphery, and instead produce a new multi-perspectival view of literature and cultural activities, exchanges and flows.
Oct 20, 2022 · These literary spaces, unlike some rigid constraints of an earth science like geography, can move freely between real and imaginary. By doing so, it brings out a sense of place or a spirit of place that creates and recreates known geographies.
For some critics, literary geography is about generating maps from quantitative data as a means of correlating genre with geography or charting the lineaments of a narrative trajectory. For others, the nature of the relationship between material and metaphorical spaces is paramount.
- Neal Alexander
- 2015
The defining characteristic of literary geography, and the feature which most clearly distinguishes it from spatial literary studies, is its double interdisciplinarity: the ‘literary’ of literary geography refers both to literary texts and to literary studies, while the ‘geography’ of literary geography refers not only to real and imagined geogr...
- Sheila Hones
- 2018
Feb 12, 2017 · Maps, however, are used in literature to enhance the reality of the fictional world, from science fiction to novels prophesying war . (Post)colonial literatures are seen as a vital site of literary mapping, using Conrad’s Heart of Darkness as a case study.
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This edited collection examines the relationship between geography, spatiality, texts, images and maps through a conceptual frame that integrates geocreativity, geopoetics, geotexts, geoimagery, and geohistory.
