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Atlas of the European Novel 1800-1900

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Moretti as mentioned in this paper explored the fictionalization of geography in the nineteenth-century novel and found that space may well be the secret protagonist of cultural history, in a series of one hundred maps, alongside Spanish picaresque novels, African colonial romances and Russian novels of ideas.
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In a series of one hundred maps, Franco Moretti explores the fictionalization of geography in the nineteenth-century novel. Balzac's Paris, Dickens's London and Scott's Scottish Lowlands are mapped, alongside the territories of Spanish picaresque novels, African colonial romances and Russian novels of ideas, in a path-breaking study which suggests that space may well be the secret protagonist of cultural history.

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From Spatial Turn to GIS-Mapping of Literary Cultures

Marko Juvan
- 29 Jan 2015 - 
TL;DR: The Space of Slovenian Literary Culture: Literary History and the GIS-Based Spatial Analysis as discussed by the authors is a research project that maps and analyses data about the media, institutions, and actors of Slovene literature in order to explain how the interaction between spaces in literature and literature in spaces has historically established a nationalized and aesthetically differentiated literary field.
Dissertation

"We Must Ourselves Write About Ourselves:" The Trans-Communal Rise of the Novel in the Late Ottoman Empire.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a solution to solve the problem of the problem: this article ] of "uniformity" and "uncertainty" of the solution.
Dissertation

The narrative art of modernist fiction : a corpus stylistic and cognitive narratological approach

Jian Luo
TL;DR: This paper explored modernist narrative art embodied in modernist style of constructing narrative space and found that modernist tendency to deemphasise particularity of place shapes a narrative design of spatial detachment.
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Locative literature: experiences with the textopia system

TL;DR: The textopia project, a locative media design experiment set up to explore the relationship between places and literary texts, allows a user to walk through a city and listen to texts that talk about the places the user is passing by, thus making possible a new way of experiencing place-bound literature in relation to place.
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Modelling Uncertain Geodata for the Literary Atlas of Europe

TL;DR: In this paper, an attributed spatial data model was developed to meet the requirements for a comparative, flexible study of literary spaces with numerous thematical questions, using this model, spatial data of fictional texts were classified into settings, zones of actions, projected spaces, routes and marker.