Postmodern Cartographies

Author : Brian Jarvis
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Postmodern Cartographies written by Brian Jarvis and published by Pluto Press (UK). This book was released on 1998 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ''... brilliantly original ... brings cultural and post-colonial theory to bear on a wide range of authors with great skill and sensitivity.' Terry Eagleton

Author : Peta Mitchell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135913935
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cartographic Strategies of Postmodernity written by Peta Mitchell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last fifty years have witnessed the growing pervasiveness of the figure of the map in critical, theoretical, and fictional discourse. References to mapping and cartography are endemic in poststructuralist theory, and, similarly, geographically and culturally diverse authors of twentieth-century fiction seem fixated upon mapping. While the map metaphor has been employed for centuries to highlight issues of textual representation and epistemology, the map metaphor itself has undergone a transformation in the postmodern era. This metamorphosis draws together poststructuralist conceptualizations of epistemology, textuality, cartography, and metaphor, and signals a shift away from modernist preoccupations with temporality and objectivity to a postmodern pragmatics of spatiality and subjectivity. Cartographic Strategies of Postmodernity charts this metamorphosis of cartographic metaphor, and argues that the ongoing reworking of the map metaphor renders it a formative and performative metaphor of postmodernity.

Author : Robert T. Tally Jr.
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137449373
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Literary Cartographies written by Robert T. Tally Jr. and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring narrative mapping in a wide range of literary works, ranging from medieval romance to postmodern science fiction, this volume argues for the significance of spatiality in comparative literary studies. Contributors demonstrate how a variety of narratives represent the changing social spaces of their world.

Author : Damian Walford Davies
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 1783165170
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cartographies of Culture written by Damian Walford Davies and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2012-06-15 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cartographies of Culture: New Geographies of Welsh Writing in English offers a pioneering new examination of the links between maps and imaginative writing. Concerned to draw literary studies and geography into a fruitful dialogue, the book offers a genuinely interdisciplinary study of literary texts in relation to the spatialities of culture. Taking the anglophone literature of Wales as its main ‘data field’, the book offers a boldly imaginative and stringently theorised analysis of five literary ‘maps’. What emerges is nothing less than a new way of reading literature through, and as, maps.

Author : Joel Evans
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108497012
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conceptualising the Global in the Wake of the Postmodern written by Joel Evans and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-28 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Identifies a return to figurations of the totality in contemporary literature, theory and culture.

Author : C. Baker
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230290442
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Madness in Post-1945 British and American Fiction written by C. Baker and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-10-14 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive and thematic exploration of representations of madness in postwar British and American Fiction, this book is relevant to those with interests in literary studies and is a vital read for psychiatric clinicians and professionals who are interested in how literature can inform and enhance clinical practices.

Author : Phil Cohen
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538147211
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Directions in Radical Cartography written by Phil Cohen and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-12-17 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Directions in Radical Cartography looks at the contemporary debates about the role of maps in society. It explores the emergence of counter-mapping as a distinctive field of practice, and the impact that digital mapping technologies have had on cartographic practice and theory. It includes original research, accounts of mapping projects and detailed readings of maps. The contributors explore how digital mapping technologies have sponsored a new wave of practices that seek to challenge the power that maps are commonly assumed to have. They document the continued vitality of analogue maps in the hands of artists and activists who are pushing the boundaries of what is mappable in different ways. New Directions in Radical Cartography draws on a rich body of mapping work that exists as part of community action, urban ethnography, environmental activism, humanitarianism, and public engagement.

Author : Fran Mason
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442276207
Total Pages : 587 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Postmodernist Literature and Theater written by Fran Mason and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-12-12 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main aim of the book has been to include writers, movements, forms of writing and textual strategies, critical ideas, and texts that are significant in relation to postmodernist literature. In addition, important scholars, journals, and cultural processes have been included where these are felt to be relevant to an understanding of postmodernist writing. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Postmodernist Literature and Theater contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 400 cross-referenced entries on postmodernist writers, the important postmodernist aesthetic practices, significant texts produced throughout the history of postmodernist writing, and important movements and ideas that have created a variety of literary approaches within the form. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the postmodernist literature and theater.

Author : Fran Mason
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0810868555
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The A to Z of Postmodernist Literature and Theater written by Fran Mason and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2009 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The A to Z of Postmodernist Literature and Theater examines the different areas of postmodernist literature and theater and the variety of forms that have been produced. It contains a list of acronyms, a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and several hundred cross-referenced dictionary entries on individual writers, important aesthetic practices, significant texts, and important movements and ideas that have created a variety of literary approaches within the form. By placing these concerns within the historical, philosophical, and cultural contexts of postmodernism, this reference explores the frameworks within which postmodernist literature of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries operates." --Book Jacket.

Author : John Pickles
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135104913
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Spaces written by John Pickles and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an essential insight into the practices and ideas of maps and map-making. It draws on a wide range of social theorists, and theorists of maps and cartography, to show how maps and map-making have shaped the spaces in which we live. Going beyond the focus of traditional cartography, the book draws on examples of the use of maps from the sixteenth century to the present, including their role in projects of the national and colonial state, emergent capitalism and the planetary consciousness of the natural sciences. It also considers the use of maps for military purposes, maps that have coded modern conceptions of health, disease and social character, and maps of the transparent human body and the transparent earth.