Abstract Machine : Humanities GIS.

Cover -- 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 -- Spatializing At Swim-Two-Birds -- Psychogeographical mapping with GIS -- Vico-Bakhtin timespaces -- Counter-cartographical GIS -- 7. Geovisualizing Beckett -- Samuel Beckett's GIStimeline -- Geovisual narratology -- Dublin-Paris, 1916-30 -- Beckett's bottled climates -- London, 1933-35 -- France, 1945-46 -- Bricolage and biography -- Part 3. Toward a humanities GIS.

8. The terrae incognitae of humanities GIS -- The lost mapmaker -- The map theater -- The geographer's science and the storyteller's art -- About the author -- Index -- Back cover.

Abstract Machine brings GIS tools to the arts and humanities. Topics include Irish literature and history, with a focus on writers such as Samuel Beckett, James Joyce, and Patrick Kavanagh. Illustrates the importance of GIS as an interpretive tool for disciplines in the humanities.

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