How can we map stories? A cybercartographic application for narrative cartography
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a cyber-cartographic application designed to address this issue and provide solutions to help properly map some of the many dimensions of narratives, including the places of the narration (geography), the connection between these places (geometry), as well as the temporal dimension inherent to storytelling.
Abstract: Narratives and places are deeply connected. Places often contribute to the shaping of a story, just as stories contribute to the production of spatial identities. Mapping narratives can thus have a double goal: to explore the geographic structure of a story, and to better understand the impact of stories on the production of places. While it may be easy to locate narratives as points on a map, this type of representation is rarely relevant in capturing and characterising the complex spatio-temporal dimensions of the narratives. In this paper, we present a cyber-cartographic application designed to address this issue and provide solutions to help properly map some of the many dimensions of narratives, including the places of the narration (geography), the connection between these places (geometry), as well as the temporal dimension inherent to storytelling. This application, originally developed to map contemporary Canadian cinematographic narratives (see examples here: http://scaquard.classone-tech.com/),...
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TL;DR: The notion of multiplication of recits was introduced by Baroni and Ricoeur as mentioned in this paper, who explored the mutations that connait cet agencement de recits percu comme traditionnel and theorise en France dans les annees 1960 par Gerard Genette et Tzvetan Todorov.
Abstract: Depuis les romans oulipiens d’Italo Calvino – Si par une nuit d’hiver un voyageur et Le Château des destins croises – jusqu’aux hypertextes de fiction se joue une redefinition de la forme et des enjeux de l’enchâssement narratif. Ce travail vise, a partir d’un corpus contemporain, a explorer les mutations que connait cet agencement de recits percu comme traditionnel et theorise en France dans les annees 1960 par Gerard Genette et Tzvetan Todorov. Nous proposons, avec la notion de multiplication des recits, un assouplissement de ses contours afin d’aborder un corpus d’oeuvres romanesques cherchant a tisser ensemble plusieurs recits tout en brouillant les reperes hierarchiques impliques par les notions d’enchâssement ou d’insertion. Croisant approche narratologique et prise en compte de la reception, ce travail se donne pour objectif d’interroger ce qu’est la multiplication des recits en ne perdant jamais de vue ses effets, en particulier sur la mise en intrigue (P. Ricoeur) : comment comprendre et analyser la reception passionnee (R. Baroni) du lecteur face a des oeuvres parfois monstrueuses, entremelant les strates narratives et courant le risque du desordre, de la perte et de l’illisible ? Nous proposons de suivre a la trace le lecteur intrigue, protagoniste de cette etude et arpenteur ou geometre des espaces fictionnels et textuels ouverts par la multiplication des recits, a travers sa progression dans des romans – imprimes ou numeriques – qui placent au coeur de leurs enjeux la question du dispositif narratif
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14 May 2018TL;DR: This article presents an information extraction method which collects additional information on the web so as to enrich already existing information and then fill in a knowledge base using lexical and syntactical patterns.
Abstract: Relation pattern extraction and information extraction from the web. This article presents an information extraction method which collects additional information on the web so as to enrich already existing information and then fill in a knowledge base. Our method is based on lexical and syntactical patterns, both used as search queries and extraction patterns to allow the analysis of unstructured documents. To do so, we first defined relevant criteria coming from the analysis phase so as to ease the discovery of new values. MOTS-CLES : Construction de patrons, extraction d’information, extraction d’entités nommées, syntaxe en dépendances, apprentissage de patrons d’extraction, web comme corpus.
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TL;DR: The recent literature in cartography and geographic information science Cartography and Geographic Information Science: Vol 40, AutoCarto 2012 Research Symposium, pp 363-381 as discussed by the authors, is a recent survey of Cartography, Geographic Information, and Information Science.
Abstract: (2013) Recent literature in cartography and geographic information science Cartography and Geographic Information Science: Vol 40, AutoCarto 2012 Research Symposium, pp 363-381
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TL;DR: The authors explored the use of Story Maps in a cultural geography field course that uses a place-based approach to understand the Delta Blue's culture and found that story maps were used to captu...
Abstract: This article explores the use of Story Maps in a cultural geography field course that uses a place-based approach to understand the Delta Blue’s culture. In this study, Story Maps was used to captu...
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Abstract: List of Figures. Acknowledgements. Introduction: Orienting, Disorienting the Novel 1. On Getting Oriented 2. Melville's Zig-Zag World-Circle 3. Joyce's Geodesy 4. Pynchon's Baedeker Trick 5. On Getting Lost Notes. Bibliography. Index
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TL;DR: Critical cartography draws on 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 andtext occur alongside each other and the author is also the map-maker; and the difficulties created by naive users of the literary map.
Abstract: How we read and interpret a map when it is presented alongside the text in a work of 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 being understood as integral to the meaning of the literary work. This article seeks to challenge such assumptions. The first half of the article is interdisciplinary, engaging with the work of J.B. Harley, Mark Monmonier, Franco Moretti, Christina Ljungberg, and Andrew Thacker in order to open up responses to literary maps in more complex ways. It draws on 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 map-maker; and the difficulties created by naive users of the literary map. The second half of the article grounds the p...
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"How can we map stories? A cybercart..." refers background in this paper
...The recent recognition of the importance of the spatial dimensions of narratives has stimulated the interest of literary scholars (see for instance Bushell, 2012; Cooper & Priestnall, 2011; Piatti, Bär, Reuschel, Hurni, & Cartwright, 2009; Piatti & Hurni, 2011; Ungern-Sternberg, # 2013 Sebastien…...
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TL;DR: In this article, a concept of processual intertextuality is used to open up thinking about literary maps and mapping practices: a concept through which such maps are understood to be systems of cultural signification which are inextricably embedded within the material world and which are brought into being with each embodied reading or use.
Abstract: Drawing upon recent interdisciplinary research in the fields of literary geography and critical cartography, this article argues that a concept of processual intertextuality might be used to open up thinking about literary maps and mapping practices: a concept through which such maps are understood to be systems of cultural signification which are inextricably embedded within the material world and which are brought into being with each embodied reading or use. This theory is then applied to maps which are both reproduced within and generated by Arthur Ransome’s Swallows and Amazons (1930): an adventure novel for children which is predicated upon a conflation of actual and imagined geographies. The article goes on to propose that the critical understanding of the processual intertextuality of literary cartographies might be further enhanced by the use of a suite of geo-location technologies; and, ultimately, it suggests that the future of critical literary cartography might be founded, at least in part, upon in-the-field digital mapping practices.
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"How can we map stories? A cybercart..." refers background in this paper
...…of the importance of the spatial dimensions of narratives has stimulated the interest of literary scholars (see for instance Bushell, 2012; Cooper & Priestnall, 2011; Piatti, Bär, Reuschel, Hurni, & Cartwright, 2009; Piatti & Hurni, 2011; Ungern-Sternberg, # 2013 Sebastien…...
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