Legends of Warsaw and Distant Reading: Mapping the Local Folk Tales from the Perspective of Geopoetics and Literary Geography Cover Image

Legendy warszawskie czytane na dystans. Mapowanie podań lokalnych w perspektywie geopoetyki i geografii literackiej
Legends of Warsaw and Distant Reading: Mapping the Local Folk Tales from the Perspective of Geopoetics and Literary Geography

Author(s): Łukasz Bukowiecki
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Geography, Regional studies, Human Geography, Regional Geography, Applied Geography, Maps / Cartography, Studies of Literature, Ethnohistory, Oral history, Polish Literature, Philology
Published by: Wydział Polonistyki Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: distant reading; literary geography; geopoetics; legend; map; local folk tale; space; Warsaw

Summary/Abstract: Words and images, literature and space, texts and a map, a museum and a city – these are the most important pairs of concepts that summarise the assump-tions and results of the research and publishing project of the Museum of Warsaw,Words and images, literature and space, texts and a map, a museum and a city – these are the most important pairs of concepts that summarise the assumptions and results of the research and publishing project of the Museum of Warsaw,the output of which is the anthology Legendy warszawskie [Legends of Warsaw], selected by Anna Marta Zdanowska, edited by Julia Odnous, and with graphic design and illustrations by Wojciech Pawliński, that was published in 2016 (English edition – 2020). The author of the article looks at Mapa legend warszawskich [Map of Warsaw Legends] included in the book and analyses what it shows in the context of research on the relations of territories, their graphic representations, and the accompanying text.

  • Issue Year: 3/2021
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 11-25
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Polish