The Plausible World [electronic resource] : A Geocritical Approach to Space, Place, and Maps /
Westphal, B.author.
Wells, Amy D.,1974-
In The Plausible World , the intersections of literature and cartography enable readers to understand that place is anything but purely geographic: a plausible world is created as a strategy to fill the void. Innovative in his approach, Westphal challenges the view that perceptions and representations of space are stable or straightforward.
The Plausible World: A Geocritical Approach to Space, Place, and Maps; Contents; Translator's Note; Foreword: A Geocriticism of the Worldly World; Acknowledgments; Introduction; CHAPTER 1: The Multiplication of Centers; The Location of the Omphalos; The Omphalos Syndrome; Orientations; The Composition of Place; Babylon and Taprobane at the Intersection of Worlds; The Philology of the New; CHAPTER 2: The Horizon Line; The Opening Up of Space; Gazing Far Away; The Western Horizons; The Sublime Dive; Dante at the Beach; CHAPTER 3: The Spatial Urge; The Myth and the Void; Epiphanies of Space
Africa and Its Heritage: Abu Bakari IIChina and Its Heritage: Zheng He; America, or the Trinity of Four; The World's New Clothes; CHAPTER 4: The Invention of Place; Cabeza de Vaca or the Possibility of Space; The Invention of Place; The Anthropological Machine; The Two Senses of Invention; Name of the Country: The Country; CHAPTER 5: The Measured Mastery of the World; Invisible Lines and Rings in the Water; The Measured Mastery of the World; Cartographic Imposture: One's Self in Lieu of the Other; Against Graphocracy, for a Different Cartography; Cartography, Literature, Writing of Place
Place beyond MeasureNotes; Index
Includes index.
In The Plausible World , the intersections of literature and cartography enable readers to understand that place is anything but purely geographic: a plausible world is created as a strategy to fill the void. Innovative in his approach, Westphal challenges the view that perceptions and representations of space are stable or straightforward.
Literature   .
Literature, Modern—20th century.
Literature—History and criticism.
European literature.
Postcolonial/World Literature.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Literary History.
European Literature.