Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as CartographerTrinity University Press, 2004 - 245 páginas Maps of the Imagination takes us on a magic carpet ride over terrain both familiar and exotic. Using the map as a metaphor, fiction writer Peter Turchi considers writing as a combination of exploration and presentation, all the while serving as an erudite and charming guide. He compares the way a writer leads a reader though the imaginary world of a story, novel, or poem to the way a mapmaker charts the physical world. "To ask for a map," says Turchi, "is to say, 'Tell me a story.' " With intelligence and wit, the author looks at how mapmakers and writers deal with blank space and the blank page; the conventions they use or consciously disregard; the role of geometry in maps and the parallel role of form in writing; how both maps and writing serve to re-create an individual's view of the world; and the artist's delicate balance of intuition with intention. A unique combination of history, critical cartography, personal essay, and practical guide to writing, Maps of the Imagination is a book for writers, for readers, and for anyone interested in creativity. Colorful illustrations and Turchi's insightful observations make his book both beautiful and a joy to read. |
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... sentence , we travel with the mail to Alcée's wife . She is charmed by his letter , and relieved at the invitation to extend " the pleasant liberty of her maiden days . " The final sen- tence tells us , " So the storm passed and every ...
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... sentence , changes our understanding of everything we've read up to that point , and redefines our expectations for what lies ahead . In the very next sentence , we are newly aware of an enormous omis- sion . " Okay , but to Lin's way ...
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... sentence , but the status of the narrative the sentence stands for . Line breaks willfully remind us of the wordlessness that surrounds and shapes the verbal passage . Like the strips in Ogilby's scroll , each line in a poem re ...
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CHAPTER | 27 |
CHAPTER THREE | 73 |
CHAPTER FOUR | 99 |
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Alcée Alice Munro Ance Andreson Anne Carson artist atlas beginning believe blank Bobinôt Borges Calixta Calvino's cartographers century character chart Chopin's Chuck Jones City College constraints conventions Courtesy create Dalloway Denis Wood depict dialogue discovery distance distortion formula draw Earth Ellen Bryant Voigt essay everything exploration fiction film geometry Humbert imaginary imagine intention killers Kundera Leonard lines live Lolita look LOUISE GLÜCK map's mapmakers mental map Mercator Milan Kundera mind Moby-Dick Nabokov narrative narrator never North novel OCEAN Oulipo perspective piece plot poem poetry Poets postrealistic projection prose reader realism River Road Runner scene sense sentence shape space story's Street Luging T. S. Eliot tell things thought trails Treasure Island triangle understand Univ viewer visual Warren Wilson Warren Wilson College words writing York