Cartographic Strategies of Postmodernity

The Figure of the Map in Contemporary Theory and Fiction

Peta Mitchell (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

230 Seiten

2012
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-80912-2 (ISBN)

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The last fifty years have witnessed the growing pervasiveness of the figure of the map in critical, theoretical, and fictional discourse. References to mapping and cartography are endemic in poststructuralist theory, and, similarly, geographically and culturally diverse authors of twentieth-century fiction seem fixated upon mapping. While the map metaphor has been employed for centuries to highlight issues of textual representation and epistemology, the map metaphor itself has undergone a transformation in the postmodern era. This metamorphosis draws together poststructuralist conceptualizations of epistemology, textuality, cartography, and metaphor, and signals a shift away from modernist preoccupations with temporality and objectivity to a postmodern pragmatics of spatiality and subjectivity. Cartographic Strategies of Postmodernity charts this metamorphosis of cartographic metaphor, and argues that the ongoing reworking of the map metaphor renders it a formative and performative metaphor of postmodernity.

Peta Mitchell is a lecturer in the School of English, Media Studies, and Art History at The University of Queensland.

List of Illustrations Preface Introduction: Text–Map–Metaphor 1. A Genealogy of Cartography, A Genealogy of Space 2. Subjectivity: The Cartographer as Nomad 3. Mapping the Labyrinth: Twentieth-Century Cartography and the City 4. Metamorphoses of the Map. Notes Bibliography

Erscheint lt. Verlag	10.2.2012
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	280 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-415-80912-6 / 0415809126
ISBN-13	978-0-415-80912-2 / 9780415809122
Zustand	Neuware