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TY - JOUR
T1 - The Slipperiness of Literary Maps: Critical Cartography and Literary Cartography
AU - Bushell, Sally
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - How we read and interpret a map when it is presented alongside the text in a work of literary fiction is the central issue with which this paper is concerned. Although “literary maps” can be found across a range of genres in Literary Studies they are often treated as illustrative rather than understood to be integral to the meaning of the literary work. This paper seeks to challenge such an assumption. The first half of the paper is interdisciplinary, engaging with the work of Harley, Monmonier, Moretti and Thacker in order to open up responses to literary maps in more complex ways. It draws upon critical cartography to define core concerns for an emerging literary cartography such as the nature of the analogy between map and text; the complexity of correspondence when a map and text occur alongside each other and the author is also the mapmaker; the difficulties created by naive users of the literary map. The second half of the paper grounds prior discussion in analysis of Agatha Christie’s house plans in The Mysterious Affair at Styles and The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.
AB - How we read and interpret a map when it is presented alongside the text in a work of literary fiction is the central issue with which this paper is concerned. Although “literary maps” can be found across a range of genres in Literary Studies they are often treated as illustrative rather than understood to be integral to the meaning of the literary work. This paper seeks to challenge such an assumption. The first half of the paper is interdisciplinary, engaging with the work of Harley, Monmonier, Moretti and Thacker in order to open up responses to literary maps in more complex ways. It draws upon critical cartography to define core concerns for an emerging literary cartography such as the nature of the analogy between map and text; the complexity of correspondence when a map and text occur alongside each other and the author is also the mapmaker; the difficulties created by naive users of the literary map. The second half of the paper grounds prior discussion in analysis of Agatha Christie’s house plans in The Mysterious Affair at Styles and The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.
KW - literature
KW - map
KW - spaceLiterary
KW - cartography
KW - fictional
KW - map
KW - text
KW - creative
KW - reader
KW - duplicity
KW - doubleness
KW - critical
U2 - 10.3138/carto.47.3.1202
DO - 10.3138/carto.47.3.1202
M3 - Journal article
VL - 47
SP - 149
EP - 160
JO - Cartographica
JF - Cartographica
SN - 0317-7173
IS - 3
ER -