From Robert Louis Stevenson's lost map of Treasure Island to Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County and the extensive mappings of Tolkien's Middle-earth – authors, readers and scholars alike have long shared the fascination cartographic representations of literary worlds and places hold. In this seminar, we will therefore discuss a variety of literary mappings, explore their history and function, and possibly even make some maps ourselves.
A reader containing selected texts will be available at the copy shop in Reckhammerweg at the beginning of the semester. |
