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• Title:Abstract machine : humanities GIS / Charles B. Travis.
  
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• Author/Creator:Travis, Charles, 1964- author.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Ebooks Corporation.
  
• Published/Created:Redlands, California : Esri Pres, 2015.
  ©2015
  

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  • Call Number: G70.212
    
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• Library of Congress Subjects:Geographic information systems.
  Information storage and retrieval systems--Humanities.
  Humanities--Technological innovations.
  Humanities--Methodology.
  Space and time.
  Geography and literature.
  
• Edition:First edition.
  
• Description:1 online resource.
  
• Reproduction note:Electronic reproduction. Perth, W.A. Available via World Wide Web.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  Description based on print version record.
  
• ISBN:9781589483699 (electronic bk.)
  1589483693 (electronic bk.)
  9781589483682 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  1589483685 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: pt. 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
  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
  Books of Survey and Distribution
  Database mapping the Books
  Visualizing the webs of history
  pt. 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
  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)
  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
  pt. 3 Toward a humanities GIS
  8. terrae incognitae of humanities GIS
  lost mapmaker
  map theater
  geographer's science and the storyteller's art.