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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...
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.
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...
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...
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.
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...
History, Space and Place
Spaces, too, have a history. And history always takes place in spaces. But what do historians mean when they use the word "spaces"? And how can spaces be historically investigated? Susanne Rau provides a survey of the history of Western concepts of space, opens up interdisciplinary approaches to the phenomenon of space in fields ranging from physics and geography to philosophy and sociology, and explains how historical spatial analysis can be methodologically and conceptually conceived and carried out in practice. The case studies presented in the book come from the fields of urban history, the history of trade, and global history including the history of cartography, but its analysis is equally relevant to other fields of inquiry. This book offers the first comprehensive introduction to the theory and methodology of historical spatial analysis. Supported by Open Access funds of the University of Erfurt
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?
Le lac de Saint-Pardoux
"Le lac de Saint-Pardoux en Limousin a été créé en 1976 pour redynamiser la campagne haut viennoise qui perdait habitants et activités. Ce livre retrace l’histoire de la création du lac, sa naissance et sa mise en valeur touristique. Après en avoir livré la « carte d’identité » géographique, il en analyse l’évolution plus que trentenaire sous l’effet de processus naturels et humains, et quantifie les vitesses d’évolution du littoral et de la cuvette lacustre. Il rend compte de la nécessité de connaître l’environnement pour que l’utilisation d’un lac soit bien celle escomptée (touristique, ici), et intègre cette recherche dans la thématique de la gestion environnementale et du développement durable, dans un souci d’objectivité quant à la question de la pollution radioactive." [description sur le site de l'éditeur]
