The Literary Geography of İstanbul and the Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar in the Framework of the Narration and Tourism Relationship

This chapter aims to evaluate the works made under the title “the literary geography of İstanbul” concerning literary tourism in the activities carried out by the Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar Research and Application Centre regarding Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar and the novel Huzur. In this framework, the author examines the tourist experiences of literary tourists in actual and fictitious localities, their psycho-aesthetic experiences, the relationships they build with the city, the method used by the research center in these touristic activities, as well as the consequences of these experiences for literary tourism. The potential of Turkish literature in determining the future of cultural tourism and literary tourism will also be evaluated.

Literary Geographies in Balzac and Proust

Literary geography is one of the core aspects of the study of the novel, both in its realist and post-realist incarnations. Literary geography is not just about connecting place-names to locations on the map; literary geographers also explore how spaces interact in fictional worlds and the imaginary of physical space as seen through the lens of characters' perceptions. The tools of literary cartography and geographical analysis can be particularly useful in seeing how places relate to one another and how characters are associated with specific places. This Element explores the literary geographies of Balzac and Proust as exemplary of realist and post-realist traditions of place-making in novelistic spaces. The central concern of this Element is how literary cartography, or the mapping of place-names, can contribute to our understanding of place-making in the novel.

The Morphology of Prometheus, Literary Geography and the Geoethical Project

This paper explores mappings, musings and ‘thought experiments’ in literary geography to consider how they may contribute to geoethical pedagogy and research. Representations of Prometheus from the fourteenth century onwards have traveled along three broad symbological roads: first, as the creator, and bringer of fire; second as a bound figure in chains, and thirdly, unbound. However, it was the harnessing of fire by our species a millennium prior that gave rise to the myth of Prometheus and set into motion the geophysical process of combustion which “facilitated the transformation of much of the terrestrial surface […] and in the process pushed the parameters of the earth system into a new geological epoch.” As the geophysicist Professor Michael Mann observes, global warming and loss of biodiversity constitutes an ethical problem. The remediation of the Prometheus myth in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; or the modern Prometheus (1818), Jonathan Fetter-Vorm’s Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb (2012) and William Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies (1954) provides the means to explore the geographical, historical and cultural contingencies of geoethical dilemmas contributing to the framing of the Anthropocene and Gaia heuristics. This paper argues for the necessity of scholars in the arts, humanities and geosciences to share and exchange idiographic and nomothetic perspectives in order to forge a geoethical dialectic that fuses poetic and positivistic methods into transcendent ontologies and epistemologies to address the existential questions of global warming and loss of biodiversity as we enter the age of the Anthropocene.

2018–2021 SERGEI YESENIN SCHOLARLY PROJECTS OF THE GORKY INSTITUTE OF WORLD LITERATURE

Статья посвящена научным есениноведческим проектам Института мировой литературы Российской Академии наук, в частности, «Летописи жизни и творчества С.А. Есенина» и «Есенинской энциклопедии» (фундаментальным сводам знаний о жизни и творчестве поэта): концепции, этапам работы, структуре, содержанию разделов, типологии энциклопедических статей. Первый выпуск «Есенинской энциклопедии», приуроченный к 125-летию со дня рождения поэта, носит название «Памятные места. Литературная география», содержит 353 статьи о 445 реальных и литературных топонимах Есенина и вышел в свет в самом начале 2021 г. The article looks into Sergei Yesenin-related scholarly projects of the Gorky Institute of World Literature, an institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. It describes the principles based on which The Chronicle of Sergei Yesenin’s Life and Work and The Yesenin Encyclopaedia were prepared, the stages of the editing process, the structure, the content of the chapters, and the typology of the entries. The first volume of The Yesenin Encyclopaedia has been published in early 2021 for the poet’s 125th birthday. It is entitled “Places of Memory. Literary Geography” and contains 353 articles on 445 real and fictional toponyms used in Yesenin’s works.

Unicum glaciei. Le geografie estreme di Croce del Sud

This essay offers a geocritical reading of Croce del Sud (2020), in the attempt to trace connections with other areas of Claudio Magris’ macro-text and, above all, to highlight the extreme evolution of his literary geography, here resolved in an empty, glacial, absolute space, but at the same time open to the mythopoeic tension of other spaces: from Atlantis to Lemuria, from Thule to Antichthon.