“A Serious Game”: Mapping Moominland

Sundmark, Björn

doi:10.1353/uni.2014.0022

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“…Old maps, which represent a distinct visual language, have evolved from an originally technical commodity to the basis for language-based word creations. In this way, they anchor fantasies in the real world (Sundmark 2014). This cultural phenomenon also transcends languages and has a universal meaning as it recreates and represents landscapes (Harmon 2004).…”

Section: Old Maps As the Root Of Fantasy Mapsmentioning

confidence: 96%

Cartographic time travel: Reflecting the past, defining the present, and challenging the future using old maps

Komac,

Gašperič

2023

AGS

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This introductory article of the special issue of Acta geographica Slovenica on old maps examines the importance of old maps as the foundation and culmination of geographical research. Maps, one of the earliest languages of communication, have guided exploration and become reference documents. Old maps reveal history, values, and contexts of geographical regions and geographical science. They serve as a special form of text, making possible communication across centuries. Old maps have inspired fantasy maps that depict fictional landscapes and create a cultural phenomenon. This special issue contains articles that analyze the cartographic elements of old maps, the semiotics of old maps, their use in education, and their historical significance, as well as an article on the first Slovenian atlas. Old maps challenge geographic knowledge and representation, and they are shaping the digital future.

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Section: Old Maps As the Root Of Fantasy Mapsmentioning

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Cartographic time travel: Reflecting the past, defining the present, and challenging the future using old maps

Komac,

Gašperič

2023

AGS

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“…In another article, focusing on Jansson's illustrations to Nalleresan [Teddy's Journey] by Solveig von Schoultz, Druker discusses how flight and exile (and homelessness) often relate to size in children's literature 20 . In my own previous work on Tove Jansson's maps as well as her comic strip art I have also touched on how Jansson simultaneously details and compresses narrative content through her chronotopic maps 21 , and in her use of sequentiality in the Moomin comic strips 22 . I would argue that the comic strips in their deceptive simplicity is an extremely demanding form of miniaturist art (Jansson has even written a short story on the topic 23 ), but at the same time congenial to Jansson's temperament and artistic project.…”

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Muminalism : Tove Jansson’s Art of the Miniature

Sundmark

2023

nordiques

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Dans cet article, j’analyse l’art de la miniature chez Tove Jansson. En m’appuyant sur la conceptualisation de la miniature de Gaston Bachelard et en l’adaptant au discours critique sur la littérature de jeunesse et la miniature, je soutiens que l’art verbal et visuel de Jansson en général, et dans la série Moomin en particulier, peut être compris en termes d’une « imagination miniaturisante ». Ainsi, la miniature – verbale, visuelle, artefactuelle – dans l’œuvre de Tove Jansson atteint généralement la condensation et l’enrichissement plutôt que la réduction, un « espace poétique » pour reprendre le terme de Bachelard. Le « muminalisme » de Tove Jansson sert à ouvrir le monde fictif des Moomins par un acte de construction d’un monde fictif.

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“…Although there is much research on the mental concepts connected to maps and their acquisition and use, just a few studies focus on the presentation of maps in children's literature (Baker 2006;Charlton et al 2014;Druker 2012;Goga 2014;Honeyman 2001;Pavlik 2010;Rogers 2008;Sundmark 2014). While these articles mostly deal with the narrative and aesthetic impact of maps or how they might be used in the classroom, there is virtually no investigation into the interrelation of maps as parts of children's books and children's understandings of the mental concept of a map at a certain developmental stage (cf.…”

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Maps in picturebooks: cognitive status and narrative functions

Kümmerling‐Meibauer

Meibauer

2015

BLFT

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This article focuses on the relation between maps, mental representations, description, and narration in picturebooks. It is shown that maps are cognitively demanding, since they presuppose the development of cognitive abilities and the comprehension of complex visual codes, including recognition of the specific combination of signs and names representing land-and cityscapes, geographical abstraction as well as the symbolization, highlighting, and suppression of information. After a survey of findings from cognitive psychology and geography literacy about children's map acquisition, the article gives an overview on some types of maps in picturebooks that are interesting from a narrative point of view, before turning to the pictorial character of maps. Three outstanding picturebooks with maps, Drei Jungen erforschen eine Stadt (1933) by Friedrich Bö er, The Story of the Little Red Engine (1945) by Diana Ross and Leslie Wood, and My Place (2008) by Nadia Wheatley and Donna Rawlins, have been chosen to demonstrate the diverse types and functions of maps. Finally, the article focuses on the relationship between picturebook story and map, thus showing that maps are not merely illustrations, but constitute relevant aspects of the overall narration.

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“A Serious Game”: Mapping Moominland

Cited by 13 publications

References 6 publications

Cartographic time travel: Reflecting the past, defining the present, and challenging the future using old maps

Cartographic time travel: Reflecting the past, defining the present, and challenging the future using old maps

Muminalism : Tove Jansson’s Art of the Miniature

Maps in picturebooks: cognitive status and narrative functions

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