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.)
Inhalt: 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,...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Lewiston u.a.
Edwin Mellen Press
2013
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Inhalt: 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 |
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| Beschreibung: | Literaturverz. S. 341 - 363 |
| Beschreibung: | VIII, 386 S. Ill., Kt. |
| ISBN: | 9780773445475 978-0-7734-4547-5 0773445471 0-7734-4547-1 |