By David Cooper, Christopher Donaldson, Patricia Murrieta-Flores
Drawing at the services of major researchers from world wide, this pioneering selection of essays explores how geospatial applied sciences are revolutionizing the self-discipline of literary experiences. The e-book bargains the 1st extensive exam of electronic literary cartography, a box whose contemporary and quick improvement has but to be coherently analysed. This assortment not just presents an authoritative account of the present kingdom of the sector, but additionally informs a brand new new release of electronic humanities students in regards to the serious and artistic potentials of electronic literary mapping. The booklet showcases the paintings of exemplary literary mapping tasks and gives the reader with an outline of the instruments, ideas and techniques these tasks hire.
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The ability of GIS to visualise a layered landscape has been especially conducive to digital literary map-makers interested in palimpsestic€– or ‘stratigraphic’ (Mitchell)€– topographies. That is to say, the technology has been perceived as an appropriate medium for geovisualising terrains which have been subjected to years, decades and, in some cases, even centuries of cultural over-determination. Saliently, given that the scholarly use of GIS has been historically rooted in quantitative spatial analysis (Gregory), early literary GIS projects were committed, at least in part, to testing the methodological possibilities of quantitative approaches to the literature of space, place and landscape.
