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The functions and implications of mapping hinge on ordinary ideas of space and its objects: it is taken for granted that the space and the objects therein exist on one ontological stratum, and that the subjects of the map are stationary and inanimate. Certain narratives do away with such taking for granted. In this essay, I will consider particular works of and tropes in fiction, and investigate mapping across two divides: the chasm between sentience and insentience, and that between the fictional and non-fictional.
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Trauvitch, R. (2014). Charting the Extraordinary: Sentient and Transontological Spaces. In: Tally, R.T. (eds) Literary Cartographies. Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137449375_13
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