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Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer
Peter Turchi
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Description for Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer
Paperback. Traces the history of maps, from their initial decorative and religious purposes to their later instructional applications. This book describes how maps rely on projections in order to portray a three-dimensional world on the two-dimensional flat surface of paper. Num Pages: 246 pages, with colour & b&w illustrations throughout. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 142 x 24. Weight in Grams: 488.
This book tells us how maps help us to understand where we are in the world in the same way that literature, whether realistic or experimental, attempts to explain our realities. "Maps of the Imagination" explores how writers and cartographers use many of the same devices for plotting and executing their work, making crucial decisions about what to include and what to leave out, in order to get us from here to there, without excess baggage or a confusing surplus of information.Turchi traces the history of maps, from their initial decorative and religious purposes to their later instructional applications. He ... Read more
This book tells us how maps help us to understand where we are in the world in the same way that literature, whether realistic or experimental, attempts to explain our realities. "Maps of the Imagination" explores how writers and cartographers use many of the same devices for plotting and executing their work, making crucial decisions about what to include and what to leave out, in order to get us from here to there, without excess baggage or a confusing surplus of information.Turchi traces the history of maps, from their initial decorative and religious purposes to their later instructional applications. He ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Trinity University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
246
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Number of Pages
246
Place of Publication
San Antonio, United States
ISBN
9781595340412
SKU
V9781595340412
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About Peter Turchi
Peter Turchi is the Director of the M.F.A. Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. He is the author of the novel The Girls Next Door and the story collection Magician, and the coeditor, with Andrea Barrett, of The Story Behind the Story: 26 Stories by Contemporary Writers and How They Work and, with Charles Baxter, of Bringing the Devil ... Read more
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