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p. 1149–1164, 2014; and from “From the ruins of time and space” by Charles Travis, City, vol. 17, issue no. 2, p. 209–233, 2013, article DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2012.754191.

      Edinburgh University Press, http://www.euppublishing.com/journal/IJHAC, “Abstract Machine—Geographical Information Systems (GIS) for literary and cultural studies: ‘Mapping Kavanagh’” by Charles Travis, International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing, vol. 4, p. 17–37, available online October 2010, DOI 10.3366/ijhac.2011.0005, ISSN 1753–8548.

      To my son, Senan James: like this book, you were a long time coming but well worth the wait!

      Contents

       Preface: Abstract machine

       Acknowledgments

       Part 1: GIS and the digital humanities

       1. Introduction

       From Lascaux to the Sea of Tranquility

       What is a GIS?

       GIS and the digital humanities

       Contents

       2. Toward the spatial turn

       A brief history of Western geographical thought

       Post-structuralist perspectives

       Deep mapping

       GIS and the space of conjecture

       3. Writing time and space with GIS: The conquest and mapping of seventeenth-century Ireland ...

       Period, place, and GIS

       Geovisualizing Irish history

       Rebellion and conquest in 3D

       Surveying the Cromwellian Settlement

       William Petty and the Down Survey

       From the ballybetagh to the barony

       The Books of Survey and Distribution

       Database mapping the Books

       Visualizing the webs of history

       Part 2: Writers, texts, and mapping

       4. GIS and the poetic eye

       Mapping Kavanagh

       Bakhtinian GIS

       Creating a digital dinnseanchas

       Plotting the poetic eye

       5. Modeling and visualizing in GIS: The topological influences of Homer’s Odyssey and Dante’s Inferno on James Joyce’s Ulysses (1922)

       Joycean cartographies

       Homer and Dante’s topologies

       Modeling Ulysses

       The topologies of Ulysses

       Upper Hell

       Middle of Hell (City of Dis)

       Lower Hell

       Purgatory

       Visualizing a “new Inferno in full sail”

       6. Psychogeographical GIS: Creating a “kaleidoscope equipped with consciousness,” Flann O’Brien’s At Swim-Two-Birds (1939)

       The novel as urban GIS

       SpatializingAt Swim-Two-Birds

       Psychogeographical mapping with GIS

       Vico-Bakhtin timespaces

       Counter-cartographical GIS

       7. Geovisualizing Beckett

       Samuel Beckett’s GIStimeline

      

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