Mapping Discord

Download Mapping Discord full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online Mapping Discord ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!

Mapping Discord

Author : Jeffrey N. Peters
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
ISBN 13 : 9780874138474
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (384 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Mapping Discord by : Jeffrey N. Peters

Download or read book Mapping Discord written by Jeffrey N. Peters and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mapping Discord examines a series of allegorical maps published in France during the seventeenth century that cast in spatial terms a number of heated aesthetic and social debates. It discusses the convergence of map-making and literary creation in the context of early modern cartographic practice, and demonstrates that the unique language of allegorical cartography raises important theoretical questions about the relations between rationalist discourses of science and the figural designs of imaginative writing. In detailed analyses of the imaginary maps that appeared in seventeenth-century novels and stories, as well as of maps, atlases, and geographic treatises produced by professional scholars and engineers of the period, Mapping Discord considers the ideological structure and uses of cartographic language, and argues that allegorical maps have much to tell us about the potential capacity of every map to operate as a visual metaphor for power. Illustrated, Jeffrey N. Peters is Associate Professor of French at the University of Kentucky.

Love, Power, and Gender in Seventeenth-Century French Fairy Tales

Author : Bronwyn Reddan
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496223950
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Love, Power, and Gender in Seventeenth-Century French Fairy Tales by : Bronwyn Reddan

Download or read book Love, Power, and Gender in Seventeenth-Century French Fairy Tales written by Bronwyn Reddan and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2020-12 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love is a key ingredient in the stereotypical fairy-tale ending in which everyone lives happily ever after. This romantic formula continues to influence contemporary ideas about love and marriage, but it ignores the history of love as an emotion that shapes and is shaped by hierarchies of power including gender, class, education, and social status. This interdisciplinary study questions the idealization of love as the ultimate happy ending by showing how the conteuses, the women writers who dominated the first French fairy-tale vogue in the 1690s, used the fairy-tale genre to critique the power dynamics of courtship and marriage. Their tales do not sit comfortably in the fairy-tale canon as they explore the good, the bad, and the ugly effects of love and marriage on the lives of their heroines. Bronwyn Reddan argues that the conteuses’ scripts for love emphasize the importance of gender in determining the “right” way to love in seventeenth-century France. Their version of fairy-tale love is historical and contingent rather than universal and timeless. This conversation about love compels revision of the happily-ever-after narrative and offers incisive commentary on the gendered scripts for the performance of love in courtship and marriage in seventeenth-century France.

Mapping Across Academia

Author : Stanley D. Brunn
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9402410112
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (24 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Mapping Across Academia by : Stanley D. Brunn

Download or read book Mapping Across Academia written by Stanley D. Brunn and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-02-10 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the role and importance of space in the respective fields of the social sciences and the humanities. It discusses how map representations and mapping processes can inform ongoing intellectual debates or open new avenues for scholarly inquiry within and across disciplines, including a wide array of significant developments in spatial processes, including the Internet, global positioning system (GPS), affordable digital photography and mobile technologies. Last but not least it reviews and assesses recent research challenges across disciplines that enhance our understanding of spatial processes and mapping at scales ranging from the molecular to the galactic.

Operative Mapping

Author : Roger Paez
Publisher : Actar D, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 163840139X
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (384 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Operative Mapping by : Roger Paez

Download or read book Operative Mapping written by Roger Paez and published by Actar D, Inc.. This book was released on 2024-01-22 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Operative Mapping investigates the use of maps as a design tool, providing insight with the potential to benefit education and practice in the design disciplines. The book’s fundamental aim is to offer a methodological contribution to the design disciplines, both in conceptual and instrumental terms. When added to the resources of contemporary design, operative mapping overcomes the analytical and strictly instrumental approaches of maps, opening up the possibility of working both pragmatically and critically by acknowledging the need for an effective transformation of the milieu based on an understanding of pre-existing conditions. The approach is pragmatic, not only discussing the present but, above all, generating a toolbox to help expand on the objectives, methodologies and formats of design in the immediate future. The book joins together a review of the theoretical body of work on mapping from the social sciences with case studies from the past 30 years in architecture, planning and landscape design in the interest of linking past practices with future ones.

The Written World

Author : Jeffrey N. Peters
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810136996
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Written World by : Jeffrey N. Peters

Download or read book The Written World written by Jeffrey N. Peters and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Written World: Space, Literature, and the Chorological Imagination in Early Modern France, Jeffrey N. Peters argues that geographic space may be understood as a foundational, originating principle of literary creation. By way of an innovative reading of chora, a concept developed by Plato in the Timaeus and often construed by philosophical tradition as “space,” Peters shows that canonical literary works of the French seventeenth century are guided by what he calls a “chorological” approach to artistic invention. The chorological imagination describes the poetic as a cosmological event that gives location to—or, more accurately, in Plato’s terms, receives—the world as an object of thought. In analyses of well-known authors such as Corneille, Molière, Racine, and Madame de Lafayette, Peters demonstrates that the apparent absence of physical space in seventeenth-century literary depiction indicates a subtle engagement with, rather than a rejection of, evolving principles of cosmological understanding. Space is not absent in these works so much as transformed in keeping with contemporaneous developments in early modern natural philosophy. The Written World will appeal to philosophers of literature and literary theorists as well as scholars of early modern Europe and historians of science and geography

Rethinking the Power of Maps

Author : Denis Wood
Publisher : Guilford Press
ISBN 13 : 160623708X
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (62 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Rethinking the Power of Maps by : Denis Wood

Download or read book Rethinking the Power of Maps written by Denis Wood and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 2010-04-16 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A contemporary follow-up to the groundbreaking Power of Maps, this book takes a fresh look at what maps do, whose interests they serve, and how they can be used in surprising, creative, and radical ways. Denis Wood describes how cartography facilitated the rise of the modern state and how maps continue to embody and project the interests of their creators. He demystifies the hidden assumptions of mapmaking and explores the promises and limitations of diverse counter-mapping practices today. Thought-provoking illustrations include U.S. Geological Survey maps; electoral and transportation maps; and numerous examples of critical cartography, participatory GIS, and map art.

The Oxford Handbook of the Baroque

Author : John D. Lyons
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0190678445
Total Pages : 907 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of the Baroque by : John D. Lyons

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the Baroque written by John D. Lyons and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 907 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baroque, the cultural period extending from the mid-sixteenth to the mid-eighteenth century, created some of the world's most striking monuments, music, artworks, and literature. This Handbook goes beyond all existing studies by presenting Baroque not only as a style, but also as a global cultural phenomenon arising in response to enormous religious, political, and technological changes.

Literature and Cartography

Author : Anders Engberg-Pedersen
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262036746
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Literature and Cartography by : Anders Engberg-Pedersen

Download or read book Literature and Cartography written by Anders Engberg-Pedersen and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2017-11-24 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relationship of texts and maps, and the mappability of literature, examined from Homer to Houellebecq. Literary authors have frequently called on elements of cartography to ground fictional space, to visualize sites, and to help readers get their bearings in the imaginative world of the text. Today, the convergence of digital mapping and globalization has spurred a cartographic turn in literature. This book gathers leading scholars to consider the relationship of literature and cartography. Generously illustrated with full-color maps and visualizations, it offers the first systematic overview of an emerging approach to the study of literature. The literary map is not merely an illustrative guide but represents a set of relations and tensions that raise questions about representation, fiction, and space. Is literature even mappable? In exploring the cartographic components of literature, the contributors have not only brought literary theory to bear on the map but have also enriched the vocabulary and perspectives of literary studies with cartographic terms. After establishing the theoretical and methodological terrain, they trace important developments in the history of literary cartography, considering topics that include Homer and Joyce, Goethe and the representation of nature, and African cartographies. Finally, they consider cartographic genres that reveal the broader connections between texts and maps, discussing literary map genres in American literature and the coexistence of image and text in early maps. When cartographic aspirations outstripped factual knowledge, mapmakers turned to textual fictions. Contributors Jean-Marc Besse, Bruno Bosteels, Patrick M. Bray, Martin Brückner, Tom Conley, Jörg Dünne, Anders Engberg-Pedersen, John K. Noyes, Ricardo Padrón, Barbara Piatti, Simone Pinet, Clara Rowland, Oliver Simons, Robert Stockhammer, Dominic Thomas, Burkhardt Wolf

Edmund Spenser and the romance of space

Author : Tamsin Badcoe
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526139693
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Edmund Spenser and the romance of space by : Tamsin Badcoe

Download or read book Edmund Spenser and the romance of space written by Tamsin Badcoe and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-30 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edmund Spenser and the romance of space seeks to gauge the roles that aesthetic subjectivity and the imagination play in early modern spatial and textual practices.

The Scenes of the Street and Other Essays

Author : Anthony Vidler
Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1580932703
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (89 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Scenes of the Street and Other Essays by : Anthony Vidler

Download or read book The Scenes of the Street and Other Essays written by Anthony Vidler and published by Random House Digital, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthony Vidler, an internationally recognized scholar, theorist, and critic of modern and contemporary architecture, is widely known for his essays on the most pressing issues and debates in the field. This volume brings together a collection of such writings—including the iconic, long unavailable “Scenes of the Street”—into one volume.Scenes of the Street and Other Essaysshowcases Vidler’s engaging and accessible expertise on both contemporary and historic subjects that are relevant to today's concerns. “Scenes of the Street,” a multi-faceted analysis of city planning is one such example; other essays in this volume include “Unknown Lands: Guy Debord and the Cartographies of a Landscape to be Invented,” “Transparency and Utopia: Constructing the Void from Pascal to Foucault,” and “The Modern Acropolis: Tony Garnier from La Cité Antique to the Cité Industrielle.” Vidler writes in his introduction: In the following essays, I have interrogated the struggle for an urban architecture in the modern period, its critiques and aspirations, in the belief that understanding the historical dimensions of the debate will lead to a renewal of interest in an architecture calculated to redeem, if only partially, our “planet of slums” and its deteriorating environment; an interest that will not simply reject “utopia” out of hand or fall back into the complacencies of nostalgia. Written during a period in which the debates themselves were actively engaged by critics and supporters of modernism, they reflect contemporary issues as they search for their prehistory. As historical inquiries, they inevitably also engage the transformations in history writing itself since 1970, intellectual responses to the social and political conditions of postwar modernity. This fascinating series of essays on issues and figures is an invaluable resource for architects and art historians and enthusiasts of structure and substance alike.

On and Off the Page

Author : Ari J. Adipurwawidjana
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443809381
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis On and Off the Page by : Ari J. Adipurwawidjana

Download or read book On and Off the Page written by Ari J. Adipurwawidjana and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-03-26 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays, comprised of research first presented at the seventh annual Louisiana Conference on Literature, Language, and Culture, explores one of the most pervasive, vexing, and alluring concepts in the Humanities, that of place. Including essays which encompass a broad range of research fields and methodologies, from Geography to Cybernetics, it presents a cross-section of approaches aimed revealing the complex cultural machinations behind what once may have seemed a static, one-dimensional topic. Investigations into the function of place as a force in contemporary culture inevitably reveal a long history of the interplay between place and cultural product, between 'context' and 'text'. Just as traditional cultures mythologize sacred spaces, so too has Western culture sanctified its own places through its literature. Imagined places such as Faulker’s Yoknapatawpha or Joyce’s Dublin become the focus of conferences and festivals; authors’ homes, birthplaces, and gravesites are transformed into sites of pilgrimage; locales created for television shows and movies become actual businesses catering to a public for whom the line between fantasy and reality is increasingly blurred; and persisting through the great cultural shifts of the past two hundred years is the popular and romantic notion that words, performances, narratives, and even national identities are always in some way an expression of the places in which they are created and set. With the idea of place foregrounded in so much contemporary discourse, this collection promises to enter into an already lively debate and one which, due to its relevance to where we live and how we make sense of our own “places” within them, does not show any signs of flagging.

Research-Based Art Practices in Southeast Asia

Author : Caroline Ha Thuc
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031095812
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Research-Based Art Practices in Southeast Asia by : Caroline Ha Thuc

Download or read book Research-Based Art Practices in Southeast Asia written by Caroline Ha Thuc and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-10-05 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first overall study of research-based art practices in Southeast Asia. Its objective is to examine the creative and mutual entanglement of academic and artistic research; in short, the Why, When, What and How of research-based art practices in the region. In Southeast Asia, artists are increasingly engaged in research-based art practices involving academic research processes. They work as historians, archivists, archaeologists or sociologists in order to produce knowledge and/or to challenge the current established systems of knowledge production. As artists, they can freely draw on academic research methodologies and, at the same time, question or divert them for their own artistic purpose. The outcome of their research findings is exhibited as an artwork and is not published or presented in an academic format. This book seeks to demonstrate the emancipatory dimension of these practices, which contribute to opening up our conceptions of knowledge and of art, bestowing a new and promising role to the artists within the society.

Edges of Transatlantic Commerce in the Long Eighteenth Century

Author : Seohyon Jung
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100038246X
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Edges of Transatlantic Commerce in the Long Eighteenth Century by : Seohyon Jung

Download or read book Edges of Transatlantic Commerce in the Long Eighteenth Century written by Seohyon Jung and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-03 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edges of Transatlantic Commerce in the Long Eighteenth Century examines and challenges the boundaries of the Atlantic in the eighteenth century, with a particular focus on commerce. Commerce as a keyword encompasses a wide range of documented and undocumented encounters that invoke topics such as shared or conflicting ideas of value, affective experiences of the emerging global system, and development of national economies, as well as their opponents. By investigating what gets exchanged, created, or obscured on the peripheries of transatlantic commercial relations and geography in the eighteenth century, the chapters in this collection reimagine the edge as a liminal space with a potential for an alternative historical and aesthetic knowledge. To ground this inquiry in a more material dimension, the chapters engage specifically with what is being exchanged, sold, or communicated across the Atlantic by exploring ideas that are being shaped, concealed, undermined, or exploited through intricate exchanges. With its contributions from multiple contexts and disciplinary perspectives, Edges of Transatlantic Commerce offers insights into relatively neglected aspects of the transatlantic world to cultivate the value that the edges allow us to conceive.

The SAGE Handbook of Geographical Knowledge

Author : John A Agnew
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1412910811
Total Pages : 657 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (129 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The SAGE Handbook of Geographical Knowledge by : John A Agnew

Download or read book The SAGE Handbook of Geographical Knowledge written by John A Agnew and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2011-03-04 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Broad in scope and edited by two massive names in geography, this is a critical exploration of how the field has emerged and fared over the course of its modern institutionalization.

Writing a New France, 1604-1632

Author : Dr Brian Brazeau
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1409475476
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (94 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Writing a New France, 1604-1632 by : Dr Brian Brazeau

Download or read book Writing a New France, 1604-1632 written by Dr Brian Brazeau and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-04-28 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The focus of this study is the exciting period of French overseas exploration directly following the stagnation caused by the Wars of Religion. The book examines the early period of French involvement in Northeastern America through readings of key texts, principally travel and missionary accounts. Among the works examined are travel writings by Marc Lescarbot (Histoire de la Nouvelle-France) and Samuel de Champlain (Voyages), and missionary works by Gabriel Sagard (Dictionnaire de la Langue Huronne, Histoire du Canada), Jean de Brébeuf, and Paul le Jeune (early Relations de Jésuites). Through a careful examination of these texts, the author discerns a French "rewriting of the self" in relation to the American other, represented by both land and people. America, Brazeau argues, allowed a consolidation of past markers of identity, and forced a radical rereading of others, due to the difficulties presented by the Canadian wilderness and its natives. Writing a New France, 1604-1632 sheds fresh light on a significant moment in French colonial history while providing an innovative contribution to the understanding of early modern French identity and cultural contact.

Lies of the Land

Author : Camille Serchuk
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271098708
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Lies of the Land by : Camille Serchuk

Download or read book Lies of the Land written by Camille Serchuk and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2024-12-17 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lies of the Land examines the often-overlooked artistic roots of mapmaking practice in early modern France, offering an original perspective on discourses of accuracy and their relationship to the pictorial origins of modern mapmaking. Until the seventeenth century, most mapmakers in France were painters. Schooled in techniques of drawing and perspective—and in the careful study of nature that we associate with early modernity—they also learned the more expressive and imaginative Mannerist forms that dominated French painting in this period. Their maps draw on conventions of both painting and mapmaking to create beautiful, informative, and persuasive images for a wide variety of contexts and purposes. In this book, Camille Serchuk explores the strategies these cartographers deployed to weave together accuracy, ornament, and artifice in maps at all scales. Looking beyond the techniques of measurement and perspective, Serchuk shows how painterly interventions framed and manipulated the appearance and reception of cartographic objects. Lies of the Land is an important new assessment of the character and status of early modern cartography that challenges binary distinctions between art and science and between decorative and epistemic images. It will appeal especially to art historians and historians of sixteenth-century France as well as scholars of map history.

Central European Pasts

Author : Ines Peper
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110653052
Total Pages : 668 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Central European Pasts by : Ines Peper

Download or read book Central European Pasts written by Ines Peper and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-07-18 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wie stellte man in verschiedenen kulturellen Kontexten Wissen her? Welche zeitlichen Veränderungen und räumlichen Spezifi ka prägten den Umgang mit Wissen? Wie wurde Information gespeichert, verarbeitet, geordnet, angewandt und aufbereitet, aber auch zerstört und vergessen? Was galt überhaupt als Wissen und für wen? Wie veränderten sich die Antworten darauf im globalen Kontext? Diese Fragen stehen im Zentrum der Reihe, vorwiegend mit Blick auf eine ›lange‹ Frühe Neuzeit.