This article focuses on the concepts of space, spatiality, and spatialization to grasp the reasoning behind Soja's spatial thinking, that is, the spatial or geographical imagination. A shift in the structural dominant of knowledge on literature assists geocritical studies and cultural geography by construing spatial models of literary phenomena by using new information technology. The spatial turn spontaneously generates the potential for more accurate representational means of reading spatialized history and helps realizing a geocritical ideal of multifocal presentation of literary facts.
COBISS.SI-ID: 35786797
The article discusses the geographical notions of the landscape in Slovenian Istria produced by rhetorical figures. It is based on the premise that figurative language is a mechanism that contributes to the cognitive and representational processes that take place in the literary and non-literary contexts, and is thus suitable for studying the perception and formation of one's relationship to the landscape.
COBISS.SI-ID: 35796269
The paper is a result of a project of using a geographic information system (GIS) to map the biographical data of prominent Slovenian writers from the beginnings of aesthetic production in Slovenian. Data selection for mapping entries and the means of their representation critically depart from the pioneering achievements in literary geography (Nagel, Nadler), which are associated with the “Blut und Boden” ideology. Among more recent studies, Schlosser’s literary cartography is considered. With their solutions and the purposes of the Slovenian project in mind, the article offers some suggestions regarding the conscription series of spatially linked biographical data and the relevant correlations among them. On this basis, thematic analytical maps for a contemporary areal analysis of Slovenian literary culture can be produced. The article introduces the first maps of the places of birth and death of Slovenian literary actors.
COBISS.SI-ID: 52050274