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Use of imaginary, historical, and actual maps in literature : how British and Irish authors created imaginary worlds to tell their stories (Defoe, Swift, Wordsworth, Kipling, Joyce, Tolkien, etc.) /
In this text, the author highlights unrecorded discoveries about how maps and literature are associated. Not only do maps give us a tool by which to understand a physical reality as it actually exists, but maps can support the realm of literary fiction - such as Tolkien's Middle Earth, or Steve...
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Lewiston :
Edwin Mellen,
2013.
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Use of imaginary, historical, and actual maps in literature : |b how British and Irish authors created imaginary worlds to tell their stories (Defoe, Swift, Wordsworth, Kipling, Joyce, Tolkien, etc.) / |c John Wyatt ; with a forword by Paul Foster. |
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| 520 | |a In this text, the author highlights unrecorded discoveries about how maps and literature are associated. Not only do maps give us a tool by which to understand a physical reality as it actually exists, but maps can support the realm of literary fiction - such as Tolkien's Middle Earth, or Stevenson's Treasure Island. There are also maps that try to catch a certain historical moment like an urban space at a particular time period, or a rural environment. While maps had historically guided travel, in literature they provide an escape mechanism that transports the audience to an unfamiliar place. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a THE USE OF IMAGINARY, HISTORICAL, AND ACTUAL MAPS IN LITERATURE: How British and Irish Authors Created Imaginary Worlds to Tell Their Stories (Defoe, Swift, Wordsworth, Kipling, Joyce, Tolkien, ect.); Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part One -- Maps of Discovery: Bringing Home Distant Lands; List of Maps; Chapter One -- Stories of Discovering the World; Chapter Two -- Mapping Fictions of Discovery; Chapter Three -- Making Maps for the Literary Traveller; Chapter Four -- Quest Maps and Stories of the Unknown: Light and Darkness | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Part Two -- Maps Specially Made for Literary ContextsChapter Five -- Emery Walker: The Arts and Craft Map Maker; Chapter Six -- Authors as Map Makers Stevenson, Belloc, Kipling, Ransome, Tolkien; Chapter Seven -- Posthumous Mapping; Chapter Eight -- Map Makers as Literary Protagonists; Part Three -- Coordinates of Meaning: As Places Change, So Do Maps, Others Adapt; Chapter Nine -- Mapping the Identity of Ireland; Chapter Ten -- Mapping Literary Urban Space; Chapter Eleven -- Reading Into the Map: Cartographic Poetics; Chapter Twelve -- Conclusion: New Directions to be Constructed | |
| 505 | 8 | |a A Guide for Further ReadingMaps; Index | |
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| 650 | 6 | |a Géographie dans la littérature. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Cartes géographiques dans la littérature. | |
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