Modus conlocandi: vicende intermediali nelle cartografie letterarie

Contemplating the effects of the ‘cartographic turn’ as well as of the more recent ‘post-representational theory’, on the fields of literary studies and cultural geography, the essay encourages an in-depth reading of the relationships between literary text and cartography. Is it possible to move over a general consideration of intertextual or interdiscursive dynamics, in order to adopt a properly intermedial perspective? While looking at maps as prominent media, vigorously operating through contemporary theory, arts and literature, the critical hypothesis here developed revolves around the idea of a distinct narrative mode, inspiring, or promoting the articulation of variable configurations, or subgenres, of encounters between cartographic and literary forms.