Mapping Machines: Transformations of the Petersburg Text
Keywords:
literary cartography, St Petersburg, mapping, Russian literature, Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment, Gogol, Google MapsAbstract
This paper outlines the ideas and initial results of the literary cartography project “Mapping St Petersburg”. It explores the digital impetus behind the current “spatial turn” in the humanities, and the relationship between literature and place, to ask what mapping can say about fictional texts. Examples from Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment show the potential of creating maps as thought experiments for analysis.References
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