Engberg-Pedersen (2017) Conclusion

Introduction

  • Quotations from Stevenson and Melville frame the tension between literature and cartography

  • Stevenson sees maps as essential; Melville notes their limitations

Part I: Theory and Methodology

  • Fiction plays a fundamental role in literature and cartography

  • Jean-Marc Besse discusses ‘half-places’ combining fictional and real aspects of maps and literature

  • Maps influence narratives, as seen in works of Stevenson, Zola, and Joyce

  • Digital mapping and GIS expanded the scope of literary geography

  • Barbara Piatti examines the creation of GIS for literature

  • Robert Stockhammer addresses the unmappability and referential contradictions in literature

  • Oliver Simons analyzes cartographic metaphors in Kant and Foucault

Part II: Historical Context

  • Burkhardt Wolf links the rise of literature to nautical navigation tools

  • Simone Pinet discusses medieval diagrams integrating cartography and narrative

  • Ricardo Padrón stresses the coexistence of different mapping modes during imperial expansion

  • Tom Conley highlights the Baroque influence on literary hydrography

  • John K. Noyes explores the dual rationalities in Goethe's concept of maps

  • Patrick M. Bray highlights literature's resistance to dominant spatial discourses

  • Dominic Thomas addresses colonial and postcolonial spatial imaginations

Part III: Genres of Literature and Cartography

  • Martin Brückner elaborates on genres in American literature’s relation to mapping

  • Jörg Dünne proposes a dynamic model of cartography and narrative interaction

  • Clara Rowland discusses João Guimarães Rosa’s exploration of literary geography

  • Anders Engberg-Pedersen analyzes military mapping’s role in shaping narratives and futures

Conclusion

  • The relationship between literature and cartography is complex, with both collaborations and incompatibilities

  • Future studies should focus on spatial organization and the impacts of digital mapping technologies like GPS.

  • A call for more integrated literary and cartographic studies to enhance understanding and methodologies in both fields.