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Literature and Cartography
The relationship of texts and maps, and the mappability of literature, examined from Homer to Houellebecq. 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 illustrati...
Deep Mapping the Literary Lake District
Deep Mapping and the Corpus of Lake District Writing -- Picturesque Technologies and the Digital Humanities -- Tourists, Travellers, Inhabitants: Variant Digital Literary Geographies -- Walking in the Literary Lakes -- Seeing Sound: Mapping the Lake District's Soundscape -- Digital Cartographies and Personal Geographies: (Re-)Mapping Scafell.
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Set during the Reign of Terror following the start of the French Revolution. Sir Percy Blakeney, a wealthy English fop who transforms into a formidable swordsman and a quick-thinking escape artist- the Scarlet Pimpernel.
China Miéville
The chapters in this collection respond to the range of interests that have shaped Miéville's fiction from his influential role in contemporary genre debates, to his ability to pose serious philosophical questions about state control, revolutionary struggle, regimes of apartheid, and the function of international law in a globalized world. This collection demonstrates how Miéville's fictions offer a striking example of contemporary literature's ability to imagine alternatives to neoliberal capitalism at a time of crisis for leftist ideas within the political realm.
Literature and Geography
In a period marked by the Spatial Turn, time is not the main category of analysis any longer. Space is. It is now considered as a central metaphor and topos in literature, and literary criticism has seized space as a new tool. Similarly, literature turns out to be an ideal field for geography. This book examines the cross-fertilization of geography and literature as disciplines, languages and methodologies. In the past two decades, several methods of analysis focusing on the relationship and interconnectedness between literature and geography have flourished. Literary cartography, literary geography and geocriticism (Westphal, 2007, and Tally, 2011) have their specificities, but they all agr...
Being Human Now
Today’s world is characterized by a pervasive sense of crisis and uncertainty. This has created an increasingly urgent set of questions about who counts as human today and the nature of meaningful human life. Although the human impact on earth is as visible as ever, we can no longer take the centrality of the human for granted. This tension is at the center of this volume, which engages with ontological theories of posthumanism and new materialism, combining them with poststructuralist theories of power and subjectivity to create a comprehensive matrix for diagnosing the present. Within this framework, the authors discuss American and French novels and French-language plays that offer an i...
Spatial Cultures
What is the relationship between how cities work and what cities mean? Spatial Cultures: Towards a New Social Morphology of Cities Past and Present announces an innovative research agenda for urban studies in which themes and methods from urban history, social theory and built environment research are brought into dialogue across disciplinary and chronological boundaries. The collection confronts the recurrent epistemological impasse that arises between research focussing on the description of material built environments and that which is concerned primarily with the people who inhabit, govern and write about cities past and present. A reluctance to engage substantively with this issue has b...
Die Zukunft der Kartographie
Der Begriff der Kartographie sieht sich zunehmend herausgefordert - unter anderem durch neue, technologisch bedingte Raum- und Zeitwahrnehmungen, geopolitische Umbrüche sowie den kommunikativen Imperativ der universalen Vernetzbarkeit. Die in diesem Band gestellte Frage nach der Zukunft der Kartographie lautet: Wie verhält sich Kartographie zu »Mapping« und »Kartierung«, zu deren weit zurückreichender Vorgeschichte, zu deren heutiger Anwendung auf so gut wie alle kulturellen Phänomene? Die Beiträge zeigen, dass es aktuell nicht bloß um terminologische Verschiebungen geht. Jedoch: Beschert uns die Kartographie eine kulturelle Leitmetapher oder befindet sie sich in einer epistemologischen Krise?
Inseln und Archipele
In vielen Kulturen gelten Inseln als Orte der Isolation. Dennoch werden sie, insbesondere in der Relationalität des Archipels, auch mit Bewegung und Entgrenzung verbunden. Als erste Aufsatzsammlung im deutschsprachigen Raum nimmt dieser Band Inseln und Archipele als Orte sowie als Gegenstände der Betrachtung und des Wissens unter die Lupe und beleuchtet ihr Auftreten an Fallbeispielen der modernen Diskurs-, Kunst- und Wissensgeschichte. Die Beiträge spannen den Bogen von wirklichen und imaginären Inseln über Inseln als literarische Strukturmerkmale hin zu den Möglichkeiten, das epistemologische Potenzial insularer Konfigurationen für die kulturwissenschaftliche Analyse sozialer, politischer, literarischer und nicht zuletzt ökologischer Kulturen zu bergen.
Leerstellen transmedial
Durch die intensive Beschäftigung mit unzuverlässigem und komplexem Erzählen haben narratologische Konzepte in den vergangenen Jahren in der Film- und Fernsehwissenschaft an Popularität gewonnen. Nadine Dablé widmet sich einem bisher blind gebliebenen Fleck dieser audiovisuellen Narratologie: den Leerstellen. Dadurch rückt gerade das in den Blick, was fehlt, was unausgesprochen bleibt oder explizit verweigert wird. In einer deutlichen Modernisierung und Erweiterung der literaturwissenschaftlichen Leerstellentheorie beleuchtet die Studie vielfältige Auslassungsphänomene auf ihre transmediale erzählstrategische Verwendung hin.
