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RE MAPS-L: 'Mapping Discord' book wins Prize
DA Thursday, December 22, 2005
FR Angie
TO Maps-L

UD Press books reap recognition, awards
http://www.udel.edu/PR/UDaily/2006/dec/banner122005.html

2:54 p.m., Dec. 20, 2005--Several books published by the University of
Delaware Press have been selected for recognition and awards this year.

“This has been a banner year for the UD Press, and these awards will
certainly increase our visibility and further enhance an already strong
reputation in scholarly publication,” Donald Mell, professor of English
who chairs the UD Press board of editors, said.

Mapping Discord: Allegorical Cartography in Early Modern French Writing
by Jeffrey N. Peters, a professor of French at the University of
Kentucky, won the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for French and
Francophone Literary Studies. The award will be given at the annual
meeting of the Modern Language Association meeting in late December.


*Mapping Discord: Allegorical Cartography in Early Modern French Writing*
Author: Jeffrey N. Peters
/Mapping Discord/ examines a series of allegorical maps published in
France during the seventeenth century that cast in spatial terms a
number of heated aesthetic and social debates. It discusses the
convergence of map-making and literary creation in the context of early
modern cartographic practice, and demonstrates that the unique language
of allegorical cartography raises important theoretical questions about
the relations between rationalist discourses of science and the figural
designs of imaginative writing. In detailed analyses of the imaginary
maps that appeared in the seventeenth-century novels and stories, as
well as of maps, atlases, and geographic treatises produced by
professional scholars and engineers of the period, /Mapping Discord/
considers the ideological structure and uses of cartographic language,
and argues that allegorical maps have much to tell us about the
potential capacity of every map to operate as a visual metaphor for
power. Illustrated. Jeffrey N. Peters is Associate Professor of French
at the University of Kentucky.

ISBN: 0-87413-847-7 $52.50



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ANGIE COPE
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