NDLI: GIS and telescopic reading: between spatial and digital humanities

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Author	Unamu, Enrique Santos
Copyright Year	2017
Abstract	This paper begins with the so-called spatial turn and goes on to examine one of its most recent offshoots: the cartographic turn. After analysing the implications that this turn, particularly its digital aspect, may have on a possible mappability of literature and on the definition of an emerging field like spatial humanities, the paper will discuss the broad disciplinary spectrum of digital humanities and its possible convergences with this cartographic and spatialising trend through the changes experienced by the contemporary textual condition (from the large-scale digitation of texts to the spread of multimedia). The paper also explores the split between an eminently quantitative approach and a qualitative one, within both digital and spatial humanities, when tackling the study of texts, whether they be literary or otherwise. This duality leads to the current debate between defenders and detractors of what Franco Moretti dubbed distant reading, a critical practice that opposes the traditional method of close reading. As the paper attempts to argue, that distant perspective is closely linked to the cartographic turn and does not necessarily involve using exclusively quantitative tools and giving up close reading as a means of accessing texts. In this sense, through the underlying concept of some literary GIS and of the emerging notion of deep or thick mapping, the paper argues for the possibility of a telescopic reading which, as part of the approaches and interests of spatial and digital humanities, combines quantitative and qualitative methods and makes a distant focus (that is, cartographic) compatible with a close reading of texts.
Starting Page	65
Ending Page	81
Page Count	17
File Format	PDF
ISSN	03244652
Journal	Neohelicon
Volume Number	44
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	15882810
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2017-03-20
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Literature Spatial turn GIS Digital humanities Telescopic reading Comparative Literature
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Arts and Humanities Law

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