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Literature and Geography Literature and Geography: The Writing of Space throughout History Edited by Emmanuelle Peraldo Literature and Geography: The Writing of Space throughout History Edited by Emmanuelle Peraldo This book first published 2016 Cambridge Scholars Publishing Lady Stephenson Library, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 2PA, UK British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Copyright © 2016 by Emmanuelle Peraldo and contributors All rights for this book reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the copyright owner. ISBN (10): 1-4438-8548-7 ISBN (13): 978-1-4438-8548-5 TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgements ..................................................................................... x Introduction ................................................................................................. 1 The Meeting of Two Practices of Space: Literature and Geography. Emmanuelle Peraldo PART 1: LITERARY CARTOGRAPHY, LITERARY GEOGRAPHY AND GEOCRITICISM Chapter One: Literary Cartography 1 ................................................................................................................. 20 Adventures in Literary Cartography: Explorations, Representations, Projections Robert T. Tally Jr 2 ................................................................................................................. 37 Cartography and the Contemporary American Novel. Nic Pizzolatto: An Example of Geocritical Analysis Fabrizio Di Pasquale Chapter Two: Geographical Imaginations: Time, Space and Imagination 3 ................................................................................................................. 52 Murder on the Orient Express: A Literary and Train Journey from Istanbul to Europe Anna Madoeuf 4 ................................................................................................................. 64 The Place of the Enigma: Time and Space in ArMen (1967) by Jean-Pierre Abraham Isabelle Lefort and Thierry Coanus vi Table of Contents 5 ................................................................................................................. 81 “Non-places” and u-topos in The Cosmonaut’s Last Message to The Woman he Once loved in the Former Soviet Union and Europe by David Greig Jeanne Schaaf Chapter Three: From Geographical Metaphors to a Geography of Literature 6 ............................................................................................................... 100 From Literary Myth to Literary Tourism: Cashing in on Expatriates’ Metaphorical Paris Amy Wells 7 ............................................................................................................... 126 When Space Renews the Literary Workshop: The Oulipo Movement’s Spatial Literary Practices Geraldine Molina PART TWO: GEOGRAPHY AND THE MAPPING OF LITERARY GENRES Chapter Four: Chorographies and Travel Narratives 8 ............................................................................................................... 150 Geography through Texts: Evidential Strategies in the Travel Accounts of Navigationi et Viaggi (Venice 1550-1559) Fiona Lejosne 9 ............................................................................................................... 168 The Perception of the Spaces in the Mediterranean Chorographic Literature of the Seventeenth Century Valeria Manfrè 10 ............................................................................................................. 189 Writing Space through the Work of the French Botanist Tournefort, Relation d’un voyage du Levant Isabelle Trivisani-Moreau Literature and Geography: The Writing of Space throughout History vii Chapter Five: Geographical Novels 11 ............................................................................................................. 206 Walter Scott and the Geographical Novel Céline Sabiron 12 ............................................................................................................. 222 Walking and Writing: Paul Auster’s Map of the Tower of Babel Caroline Rabourdin 13 ............................................................................................................. 234 Amitav Ghosh’s Historical and Transcultural Geographies in Sea of Poppies and River of Smoke Catherine Delmas 14 ............................................................................................................. 248 Rudyard Kipling’s Writing of the Indian Space: The Shifting Lines of Fiction and Reality, Adventure Narrative and Journalism Élodie Raimbault Chapter Six: Geographical Poetry 15 ............................................................................................................. 264 Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Transtextual Map to Venice Fabien Desset 16 ............................................................................................................. 287 W.H. Auden and the Mezzogiorno Aurélien Saby 17 ............................................................................................................. 305 Mapping out the North in Simon Armitage’s Poetry and Prose Claire Hélie viii Table of Contents PART THREE: LANDSCAPES, URBANSCAPES AND (GEO)POLITICS IN LITERATURE Chapter Seven: Writing the City 18 ............................................................................................................. 322 French Psychogeography Today? The Case of Thomas Clerc’s Paris, musée du XXIe siècle, le dixième arrondissement Joshua Armstrong 19 ............................................................................................................. 340 London in The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad: From a “Monstrous Town” to “A City of Marvels and Mud” Nathalie Martinière 20 ............................................................................................................. 354 The City and its Double: Brasília Narrated by João Almino or the Myth of Urban Modernity through the Prism of Everyday Life Paskine Sagnes and Laurent Viala 21 ............................................................................................................. 371 Myth and Reality, Peking in René Leys of Victor Segalen Xiaomin Giafferri Chapter Eight: Poetic and Geopolitical Stakes 22 ............................................................................................................. 390 A Geographer Disappears: Politics and Fiction in Purgatorio by Tomás Eloy Martínez Matei Chihaia 23 ............................................................................................................. 407 Describing Space in the “Land of the Imaginary Line”: How the Novelist Javier Vásconez Depicts Ecuador in his Novels Anne-Claudine Morel 24 ............................................................................................................. 423 The “Frontier Lands” of the South-Western Alps: Analysis of Local Territorial Processes through the Literary Constructions of Francesco Biamonti and Jean Giono Marina Marengo Literature and Geography: The Writing of Space throughout History ix 25 ............................................................................................................. 438 Chicago: Literary Geography Approaches to an Egyptian Emigration Novel Delphine Pagès-El Karoui 26 ............................................................................................................. 457 A Geocritical Approach to Literary Representations of Pakistani Spaces Juliane Rouassi Contributors ............................................................................................. 472 Index ........................................................................................................ 478 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS It is a pleasure to acknowledge the many debts I have accumulated over the two years it has taken me to organize the international conference on “Literature and Geography: The Writing of Space throughout History” (Lyon, March 2015) and to complete this volume which contains a selection of articles adapted from the papers given at the conference. My home institution, The Université Jean Moulin, Lyon 3, has substantially assisted me in several ways, and so has the laboratory in which I am a permanent member, the IETT (Institut d’études transtextuelles et transculturelles, EA4186), whose director in 2014, Claire Dodane supported the project from the first time I mentioned it and whose secretary, Delphine De Veyrac, was incredibly devoted and helpful. I am also grateful to the LIRE (UMR CNRS 5611 “Littérature, idéologies, représentations, XVIIIe- XIXe siècles”, ENS Lyon), the laboratory in which I am an associated member, for their support and financial participation to this event. My gratitude goes also to the City of Lyon for a subvention to support the project. The quality of the conference, and as a consequence of the book that came out of it, has been guaranteed by the expertise and availability of the scientific committee composed of Isabelle Lefort (Université Lyon 2), Jean Viviès (Aix Marseille Université), Yann Calbérac (Université de Reims), Catherine Delesalle (Université Lyon 3), Bertrand Westphal (Université de Limoges), Marc Brosseau (University of Ottawa), Jess Edwards (Manchester Metropolitan University), Gerd Bayer (Erlangen University, Germany) and Benjamin Pauley (Eastern Connecticut