ISBN-13: 9780708324769 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 271 str.
ISBN-13: 9780708324769 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 271 str.
Maps have long been a source of inspiration for imaginative writers, and "Cartographies of Culture" offers a pioneering new examination of the long-standing links between the two. Damian Walford Davies focuses on the Anglophone literature of and offers a boldly imaginative and stringently theorized analysis of five literary maps. In the process, he sets up an innovative dialogue between literary studies and geography that generates a genuinely interdisciplinary study of literary texts in relation to the spatial aspects of culture. What emerges is nothing less than a new way of reading literature through, and as, maps.
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