You are invited to participate in the series of online seminars
Spaces of Creativity, Creating Space
organized by the
Centre for Creativity Research
(Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Faculty of Polish Studies)
Thursday 18 May 2023
18.00 (6 p.m.) London time
19.00 (7 p.m.) Warsaw time / 12.00 (noon) Chicago time / 20.00 (8 p.m.) Kyiv time
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2187583567?pwd=Rmh3NGZxRVc0eHpqOU5JbHgxSXdhZz09
Meeting ID: 218 758 3567
PROGRAMME
- Sally Bashell (Lancaster University)
Keynote “J. R. R. Tolkien’s Cartographic Process”
This paper focusses on the uniqueness of Tolkien’s cartographic imagination and the ways in which for him writing and rewriting not just of the text but also of the map are vitally integrated creative acts. The paper begins by considering the value of a pre-existing spiritual and moral world geography in Tolkien’s earlier mythological work, The Silmarillion. This means that even the complex maps of The Lord of the Rings are still part of a greater cultural and mythological whole. The second part of the talk will look at various authorial maps for The Hobbit and changes pre- and post-publication. The final section traces the way in which, for Tolkien, the literary work develops holistically by an enlargement of the map from The Hobbit into Lord of the Rings before focusing on detailed visual-verbal integration on the MS page.
Sally Bushell is Professor of Romantic and Victorian Literature in the Department of English Literature & Creative Writing, Lancaster University UK. Her research is concerned with literary spatiality and the mapping of texts in a range of ways (across process; empirically; digitally). She is also interested in digital and spatial projects for the mapping of literature. She was PI on the AHRC Funded project: Chronotopic Cartographies and is co-creator of an educational project (Litcraft) that re-engages reluctant readers with reading by using Minecraft to map literary worlds. She has many publications on the topic of literary place and space, but her most recent book is Reading and Mapping: Spatialising The Text (Cambridge, 2020).
- Discussion
- Centre for Creativity Research: forthcoming events
dr. hab. Mateusz Antoniuk, prof. UJ
Head of the Centre for Creativity Research