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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461815803321

Autore

Ljungberg Christina <1949->

Titolo

Creative dynamics [[electronic resource] ] : diagrammatic strategies in narrative / / Christina Ljungberg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2012

ISBN

1-283-89493-9

90-272-7322-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (198 p.)

Collana

Iconicity in language and literature, , 1873-5037 ; ; v. 11

Disciplina

808.036

Soggetti

Iconicity (Linguistics)

Creativity (Linguistics)

Cognitive grammar

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Mapping practices -- Cartographic writing -- Reading as remapping: cartographic performance -- Postcolonial mappings -- Remapping the past: the case of photography -- Cognitive approaches to textual narratives.

Sommario/riassunto

How do readers make sense of a picture, a photograph, or a map in literary narratives in which visual signs play a critical role? How do authors accomplish their various objectives in constructing such complex texts? What strategies and techniques do they use to project fictional worlds and to provide their readers with the means for orienting themselves there? This book investigates the dynamics of the imaginary diagrams created by cartographers, photographers, and writers of narratives, giving ample evidence of how mapping practices have inspired the imagination of a vast number of authors f