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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.Abstract:
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.read more
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Literary Geography and Sovereign Violence: Resisting Tocqueville's Family Romance:
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A Spatial Typology of Cinematographic Narratives
Sébastien Caquard,Daniel Naud +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a spatial typology of cinematographic narratives using a cybercartographic application has been developed to map the narrative structure of 46 contemporary Canadian films, characterized by the locations of the action, the movement between these locations, and the different places mentioned in these films.