RT Journal Article
T1 The use of GIS to draw literary maps of Compostela. Applications in the educational field
A1 López Sández, María
K1 Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
K1 Santiago de Compostela
K1 Literary maps
K1 Literary cartographies
K1 Estudiantina
AB For three years now, a research group at the University of Santiago deCompostela has been working on the creation of literary maps of Compostela.1In this application of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to literature, withthe focus on a city of remarkable symbolic relevance, problems emerged, mainlyconcerning the mappeability of uncertainty and the codification of recurrenceand emotions. The point of departure was a very precise group of texts belongingto the subgenre of the ‘estudiantina’ that depict the life of Santiago Universitystudents at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. In thispaper, we intend to present the results, showing the achievements, the limits andthe new challenges that emerged.Literary cartographies have proved useful for the study of symbolic productionand for tourism. Less attention has been paid to its applicability to education,and yet, the tools used so far for creating literary cartographies can be appliedto the study of literary texts produced by students, so that the resulting maps andgraphics cast important information for the analysis of how students understandand deal with places, how they relate to the cities they live in and, thereby, revealthe constitution of their mental maps. In this paper, we will compare literarymaps of Santiago obtained on the one hand from the database created with the‘Estudiantina’ and, on the other, from the database of 40 texts written by currentstudents. Taking the maps as a point of departure, we will reflect on the historicalchanges in the imaginary of the city and the way it is perceived, inhabited andlived by current students
PB Edinburgh University Press
SN 1753-8548
YR 2018
FD 2018
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/32176
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/32176
LA eng
NO López-Sández, M. (2018). The Use of GIS to draw literary maps of Compostela. Applications in the educational field. International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing, 12(2), 183-195
NO This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Edinburgh University Press in International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing. The Version of Record is available online at: http://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/ijhac.2018.0221
DS Minerva
RD 24 abr 2026