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Mapping
In these two seminars we shall explore the theoretical
premises and practical applications of reading city-centred literature
and cinema through maps, with as primary texts a novel by Joseph Conrad
and a film
by Alfred Hitchcock, and with London
as our primary object. The theory informing our study will derive from
Mikhail Bakhtin and Franco Moretti, supplemented by the cartographical
analyses of film-centred theorists
such as Giuliana Bruno, Teresa Castro and Tom Conley.
Primary Texts:
- Mikhail Bakhtin, ‘Forms of Time and of the Chronotope in the Novel’, in The Dialogic Imagination (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1981) Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent, ed. Michael Newton (London: Penguin Classics, 2007 [1907])
- Alfred Hitchcock, Foreign Correspondent (US 1940)
- Franco Moretti, ‘A Tale of Two Cities’, in Atlas of the European Novel, 1800-1900 (London: Verso, 1998)
Secondary Reading:
- Giuliana Bruno, Atlas of Emotion: Journeys in Art, Architecture and Film(London: Verso, 2002)Teresa Castro, ‘Mapping the City through Film: from “Topophilia” to
UrbanMapscapes’, in Richard Koeck & Les Roberts (eds), The City and the
Moving
Image (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010)Tom Conley, Cartographic Cinema (Minneapolis: University of MinnesotaPress, 2007)Gene M. Moore (ed.) Conrad’s Cities (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1992): essays byHugh Epstein, Robert Hampson, Paul KirchnerClaire Rosenfield, ‘The Secret Agent’, in Paradise of Snakes (Chicago:University of Chicago Press, 1967)
