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ISBN: 3111433870 Year: 1985 Publisher: Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH,

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Mirror of the World : Literature, Maps, and Geographic Writing in Late Medieval and Early Modern England
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ISBN: 9781003096245 9780367560560 9780367560584 0367560569 Year: 2021 Publisher: Abingdon, Oxon New York, NY Routledge

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"In the late fifteenth century, the production of print editions of Claudius Ptolemy's second century Geography sparked one of the most significant intellectual developments of the era-the production of mathematically-based, north-oriented maps. The production of world maps in England, however, was notably absent during this 'Ptolemaic revival.' As a result, the impact of Ptolemy's text on English geographical thought has been obscured and minimalized, with scholars speculating a possible English indifference to or isolation from European geographic developments. Tracing English geographical thought through the material culture of literary and popular texts, this study provides evidence for the reception and transmission of Ptolemaic-based geography in England during a critical period of geographic innovation and synthesis, one that laid the foundation for modern geographical representation. With evidence from prose romance, book illustration, theatrical performance, cosmological ceilings, and almanacs, Mirror of the World proposes a new, interdisciplinary literary and cartographic history of the influence of Ptolemaic geography in England, one that reveals the lively integration of geographic concepts through narrative and non-cartographic visual forms"--


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Hors du monde : la carte et l’imaginaire
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ISBN: 2859230815 9782859230814 Year: 2019 Publisher: Strasbourg Bnu Éditions

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Hors du monde sous la direction d'Annick BOHN et Gwénaël CITERIN commissaires de l'exposition présentée à la Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire de Strasbourg du 17 mai au 20 octobre 2019 "L'imaginaire, c'est ce qui tend à devenir réel" écrivait André Breton. C'est une de ces facettes de l'imaginaire qu'illustre ce catalogue d'exposition, à travers l'exemple de la carte des origines à nos jours.Creusez aux racines de la cartographie, vous y trouverez l'imaginaire ; et aux racines des mondes imaginaires, vous y trouverez une carte. Instrument scientifique autant que source de fiction, la carte se nourrit d'imaginaire, et inversement. Depuis les interrogations de Gérard Mercator au 16e siècle sur les contours des continents encore en cours d'exploration, jusqu'aux univers conçus par J. R. R.Tolkien, la carte a le pouvoir de créer ou recréer le monde à sa guise. Richement illustré, le catalogue parcourt le monde, sur le même rythme que l'exposition qu'il accompagne, sous l'angle de l'exploration, de la découverte, de l'invention et de la création artistique. Outre la reproduction commentée des oeuvres présentes dans l'exposition, qui sont issues d'institutions prestigieuses comme le Musée du Louvre ou la bibliothèque de l'Académie des Sciences de Hongrie, il propose des articles de fond par les meilleurs spécialistes sur l'histoire de la cartographie, la recherche de l'Eldorado, la redécouverte des temples d'Angkor Vat, la longue quête des sources du Nil, mais aussi les cartes aux racines des univers de la fantasy & de la science-fiction, l'usage humoristique de la carte ou la place de la carte dans l'art contemporain.un ouvrage pluridisciplinaire Il existe déjà de nombreux et très beaux livres sur l'histoire de la carte ancienne et des premiers géographes. L'originalité de l'approche de ce catalogue est de croiser les regards entre historiens de la carte et historiens de l'art, entre arpenteurs scientifiques du monde réel et créateurs littéraires de mondes imaginaires, pour mettre l'objet carte en perspective. Ainsi le catalogue ne se limite pas à la reproduction des très belles cartes que l'on trouve dans l'exposition, mais y ajoute objets et témoignages qui mettent en lumière la démarche d'invention, d'exploration et de représentation du monde.


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Literary invention and the cartographic imagination : early modern to late modern
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ISBN: 9004520287 9789004520288 9789004427112 Year: 2022 Publisher: Leiden Brill

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Literary Invention and the Cartographic Imagination: Early Modern to Late Modern is a wide-ranging, inter- and transdisciplinary approach grounded in the twin rigors of theory and history, which, through close readings of authors from Edmund Spenser to Olga Tokarczuk, and through considered discussions of the ideologies of walking and mapping, in performance art and cultural representation, assesses and analyses the significance of maps to literary texts, and which examines the ways in which the literary maps imaginary and real worlds. Together, the essays demonstrate convincingly the close relationship between text, map and culture.


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Literature and cartography : theories, histories, genres
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ISBN: 9780262036740 0262036746 9780262342247 0262342243 0262342251 Year: 2017 Publisher: Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press,

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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.


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An errant eye : poetry and topography in early modern France
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ISBN: 9780816669653 9780816669646 Year: 2011 Publisher: Minneapolis, Minn. London University of Minnesota Press

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Cartographies of culture : new geographies of Welsh writing in English
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ISBN: 1299201296 0708324770 0708325092 9780708325094 9780708324776 9781783165179 1783165170 9780708324769 0708324762 Year: 2012 Publisher: Cardiff, [Wales] : University of Wales Press,

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This pioneering study offers dynamic new answers to Christian Jacob's question: 'What are the links that bind the map to writing?'.


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Dire straits : the perils of writing the early modern English coastline from Leland to Milton
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ISBN: 144266391X 1442694246 9781442694248 9781442663916 1442645016 Year: 2013 Publisher: Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press,

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By illustrating how early modern English writers created their works in the context of a longstanding cultural inheritance from antiquity, Elizabeth Jane Bellamy offers a new approach to the history of early modern cartography and its influences on literature.


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Cartographier les récits
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ISSN: 12427780 ISBN: 9782845166363 Year: 2016 Publisher: Clermont-Ferrand Presses universitaires Blaise Pascal

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Maps of empire : a topography of world literature
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ISBN: 1487534957 1487534949 Year: 2020 Publisher: Toronto, Ontario ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press,

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"This book examines how literary forms were affected by the decay and break up of old models of imperial administration during the middle of the 20th century."-- "During the political and historical upheavals of the mid-20th century, writers from colonized and occupied spaces questioned the necessity and ethics of their histories. Uncertainties about how to represent shifting spaces were reflected in the work of scholars and audiences reading works written by colonized peoples. As empire "wrote back" to the self-ordained centers of the world, modes of representation underwent a transformation. Exploring novels and diverse forms of literature from regions in West Africa, the Middle East, and Indigenous America, Maps of Empire examines how writers struggle with unstable boundaries generated by colonial projects and their dissolution, creating alternative topographies."--

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