{"product_id":"imagined-landscapes-geovisualizing-australian-spatial-narratives-hardback-9780253018380","title":"Imagined Landscapes; Geovisualizing Australian Spatial Narratives (Hardback) 9780253018380","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eImagined Landscapes\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eGeovisualizing Australian Spatial Narratives\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJane Stadler (Author), Peta Mitchell (Author), Stephen Carleton (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780253018380\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 21 December 2015\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e272 pages, 11 b\u0026amp;w illus., 14 maps\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.476 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"It will likely be the indispensable touchstone for any future work in these areas with respect to Australian cultural studies.\"—Robert T. Tally, \u003ci\u003eTexas State University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Definitely original in its approach, since it combines a conceptual approach with a more applied one. The book is a serious contribution to the field of mapping spatial narratives and to a better understanding of the production and spatial structure of fictional places.\"—Sébastien Caquard, \u003ci\u003eConcordia University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eImagined Landscapes\u003c\/i\u003e teams geocritical analysis with digital visualization techniques to map and interrogate films, novels, and plays in which space and place figure prominently. Drawing upon \u003ci\u003eA Cultural Atlas of Australia\u003c\/i\u003e, a database-driven interactive digital map that can be used to identify patterns of representation in Australia's cultural landscape, the book presents an integrated perspective on the translation of space across narrative forms and pioneers new ways of seeing and understanding landscape. It offers fresh insights on cultural topography and spatial history by examining the technical and conceptual challenges of georeferencing fictional and fictionalized places in narratives. Among the items discussed are \u003ci\u003eWake in Fright\u003c\/i\u003e, a novel by Kenneth Cook, adapted iconically to the screen and recently onto the stage; the Australian North as a mythic space; spatial and temporal narrative shifts in retellings of the story of Alexander Pearce, a convict who gained notoriety for resorting to cannibalism after escaping from a remote Tasmanian penal colony; travel narratives and road movies set in Western Australia; and the challenges and spatial politics of mapping spaces for which there are no coordinates.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Geocriticism's Disciplinary Boundaries\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e 1. Remediating Space: Adaptation and Narrative Geography\u003cbr\u003e 2. Cultural Topography and Mythic Space: Australia's North as Gothic Space\u003cbr\u003e 3. Spatial History: Mapping Narrative Perceptions of Place over Time\u003cbr\u003e 4. Mobility and Travel Narratives: Geovisualizing the Cultural Politics of Belonging to the Land\u003cbr\u003e 5. \u003ci\u003eTerra Incognita\u003c\/i\u003e: Mapping the Uncertain and the Unknown\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52523959288088,"sku":"9780253018380","price":52.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/imagined-landscapes-geovisualizing-australian-spatial-narratives-hardback-9780253018380","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}