An exploratory analysis of the dungeon-cave complex described in the Fantasy Fighting Gamebook (FFG) The Warlock of Firetop Mountain, published in 1982, offers an example of a ludic chronotope in which the player’s navigation of the text defines the gamespace. These denotative descriptions are intrinsic to the temporalizing quality of contingency that distinguish particular sequences of action and occurrence as signifying events. In this paper I argue that the form of the chronotope can be regarded in relational terms as the arrangement of architectural topographic descriptions that prefigure the time-space of narrative possibility. The philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin referred to the prevailing imaginaries of fictional time-space associated with distinctive phases in the development of the novel as their ‘chronotope’. This will be illustrated in relation to two Victorian texts: the realist space of Dickens’s Oliver Twist and the abstract poetic space of Browning’s ‘Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came’. The paper will articulate core methods from the project, outlining the stages involved in the process, from marking up the text, using a custom-made schema, through graph generation and into the implications for analysis. ‘road to Geneva’) connections between them of different kinds and toporefs within them (references to other places from this one). The visualizations are centred upon nodes that consist of chronotopes (e.g. Using a spatial schema to chunk out the text in terms of chronotopic (time-space) zones enables the generation of a series of visualizations that show different kinds of spatio-temporal constructions in texts. A solution was found in the form of topological graphs which allow for relative rather than absolute mapping (but also permit a relative imaginary map to be lain on top of a pre-existing cartesian form). The primary aim of that project was to find a way of mapping and visualizing represented literary worlds for which there is no corresponding real ‘ground’. He has written more than 200 publications on cartography and GIS.This short methods paper emerges out of the AHRC-funded ‘Chronotopic Cartographies’ project for the digital mapping of place and space as represented in works of literature. Menno-Jan Kraak is professor of geovisual analytics and cartography in the department of geoinformation science and earth observation (ITC), University of Twente, The Netherlands. It includes more than 100 full-color illustrations. Inspired by graphic innovator Charles Minard’s classic map of France’s disastrous invasion of Russia, this book combines historical and geographic analysis with cartographic visualizations of mapping change over time using Napoleon Bonaparte’s Russian Campaign of 1812. Mapping Time: Illustrated by Minard's Map of Napoleon's Russian Campaign of 1812 considers the cartographic challenge of visualizing time on a map. Mapping Time: Illustrated by Minard's Map of Napoleon's Russian Campaign of 1812 takes an engaging look at the cartographic challenge of visualizing time on a map. Mapping Time: Illustrated by Minard's Map of Napoleon's Russian Campaign of 1812
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