“The Uprising” Novel Map. Real and Imaginary Space in Liviu Rebreanu’s Vision

• Authors: Theodor Cepraga
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The literary works represent a genuine source for researching and understanding the geographical space. Most of the time, this space is perceived and figured in various ways by the different authors referring to it. When available, the best way to study these mental representations is by using maps created by the authors themselves. This article concentrates on Liviu Rebreanu’s novel “The Uprising” and on the map which helped him to better depict the plot and the characters. The cartographical representation was created by Liviu Rebreanu and was published together with other drafts from the author’s personal archive. The paper analyzes the map using cartographical, historical and literary sources with the aim of understanding how the author reshaped the real space to better suit his literary imagination. In the end, the study explains how these kind of maps could be interpreted using a geocritical approach.

Keywords

EN

cartography; literature; geocritics; geographical space; Liviu Rebreanu

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: International Review of Social Research
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 6
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 91-97

Dates

published

2016-05-01

received

2016-02-23

accepted

2016-04-29

online

2016-08-06

Contributors

author

Theodor Cepraga

• University of Bucharest, Faculty of Geography

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/irsr-2016-0012