The Mastery of Narratively Creating Mental Maps: Literary Cartography in Karl May’s Œuvre

Buchroithner, Manfred

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-15537-6_15

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“…Building upon the extensive work on literary geography (Hones, 2008;Saunders, 2010), literary cartography envisions mapping as a conceptual framework to improve our understating of the narrative structure of a novel (Bulson, 2007;Moretti, 1999). Literary scholars often use mapping as a metaphor to explore the relationships between an author and places structuring her/his work (Buchroithner, 2010;Edquist, 2009Edquist, , 2010. Other scholars use maps to visualize these relationships (Cooper, 2008;.…”

Section: Mapping Narratives In the Arts And Humanitiesmentioning

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Cartography I

Caquard

2011

Progress in Human Geography

172

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This report focuses on the growing interest in the relationship between maps, narratives and metanarratives. Following a brief historical contextualization of these relationships, this report explores their current state in the Geoweb era. Using the distinction between story maps and grid maps as an analytical framework, I review emerging issues around the extensive use of technologies and online mapping services (i.e. Google maps) to convey stories and to produce new ones. Drawing on literature in film studies, literary studies, visual arts, computer science and communication, I also emphasize the emergence of new forms of spatial expressions interested in providing different perspectives about places and about stories associated to places. In sum, I argue that mapping both vernacular knowledge and fiction is central to understanding places in depth.

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