Review
S. F. Johnson, Literary Territories: Cartographical Thinking in Late Antiquity
The Journal of Roman Studies, Vol.107, pp.469-470
11/01/2017
DOI: 10.1017/S0075435817000351
Abstract
J. shows the parallels in the two authors' collection methods and underscores a fact recently explored within the study of information and library science as a field: the aesthetic of a list or accumulation is itself a form of argument. Here J. pulls from the theoretical work of digital humanists and theorists such as Franco Moretti, who have used underlying geographical structures as a means of uncovering narrative and better accessing a text's constructed universe. In concluding the book, J. returns to the close reading approach of ch. 1 with an in-depth assessment of the geographical frameworks embedded in the ninth-century Syriac writings of the bishops Thomas of Marga and Isho'dnah of Basra.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- S. F. Johnson, Literary Territories: Cartographical Thinking in Late Antiquity
- Creators
- Sarah E Bond - University of Iowa, History
- Resource Type
- Review
- Publication Details
- The Journal of Roman Studies, Vol.107, pp.469-470
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press; London
- DOI
- 10.1017/S0075435817000351
- ISSN
- 0075-4358
- eISSN
- 1753-528X
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 11/01/2017
- Academic Unit
- History
- Record Identifier
- 9983779297702771
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