By David Cooper, Christopher Donaldson, Patricia Murrieta-Flores
Drawing at the services of best researchers from all over the world, this pioneering number of essays explores how geospatial applied sciences are revolutionizing the self-discipline of literary reports. The e-book bargains the 1st in depth exam of electronic literary cartography, a box whose contemporary and fast improvement has but to be coherently analysed. This assortment not just presents an authoritative account of the present nation of the sector, but in addition informs a brand new new release of electronic humanities students in regards to the serious and artistic potentials of electronic literary mapping. The booklet showcases the paintings of exemplary literary mapping tasks and gives the reader with an summary of the instruments, options and techniques these tasks hire.
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The questions, and the cartographic challenges, proliferate. In contrast to quantitative data (such as, say, historical mortality rates), therefore, these ambiguous forms of spatial information provide the reader with ‘fuzzy geographies’ (Evans and Waters), which, in turn, lead to the creation of ‘slippery’ maps (Bushell). A fourth key issue is the consideration of whether there is scope€– and perhaps even a need€– for the makers of digital literary maps to move beyond online tools or even GIS.
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