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"Defoe's chorography and geography in The Tour and Robinson Crusoe: an ecocritical reading of Defoe's spatial and environmental imagination"

open access: yes, 2011
Defoe's handling of space and land is crucial to his travel narratives, especially the Tour and Robinson Crusoe. Robinson turns the land of his uncharted island into an object that he can control, enclose and develop.
Peraldo, Emmanuelle
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Collation and Discussion of Guizhou Chorography(Wanli Zhi)——A Case Study of Tongren Fu [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
《贵州通志》是明代贵州仅存的七本方志之一,藏于日本尊经阁文库,为宇内唯一,其点校本《贵州通志·万历志》中有不少错误,以"铜仁府"为例,短短11页文字,就有200余处错误。点校本之误主要有错字,增字,脱字,异体字、繁体字未改,底本之误应校未校及标点错误等形式。The publication of the version of collation of Guizhou Chorography( Wanli Zhi) is one of the most important achievements in ...
黄尚文
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Chorography: reflections on its place in visual literacy and creative arts

open access: yes, 2009
Chorography, as defined by Ptolemy in 149 AD, is a form of visual literacy qualitatively describing the inherent attributes of place and region. Ptolemy categorically stated chorography could only be rendered by a skilled artist, designating chorography ...
O'Sullivan, Jill
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Materials on Awa-koku Hudoki in the Archives of historical documents of Goto

open access: yes, 2009
Tokusima-Han started a project of compiling Awa-koku Hudoki (chorography of present Tokusima-Prefecture)in ca 1869. The Archives of historical documents of Goto, Naruto University of Education, contains 23 documents on this project.
立岡, 裕士   +2 more
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Les chorographies de l'urbanité sonore [PDF]

open access: yesGéocarrefour, 2003
La constitution de cartes acoustiques quantitatives est l’objet de nombreux financements de recherches et de beaucoup de comman-des publiques depuis la directive européenne du 25 juin 2002. Mais à quoi vont-elles servir ? Quels en seront les lecteurs ? Serviront-elles à la requalification sonore de la ville ? On peut en douter.
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The Map by Bernard Wapowski versus Chorography by Jan Dlugosz. The analytical and synthetic outline

open access: yes, 2015
The article compares two outstanding personalities and their works showing the Polish Kingdom (Corona Regni Poloniae). The first of them was Jan Długosz (1415–1480) and his ’Chorography’, the other one is Bernard Wapowski (1450–1535), author of the first
Paszczyk, Anna
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The dance between cosmography and chorography : mapping Australia

open access: yes, 2005
This thesis proposes that maps contain much more than just a depiction of physical space. Focusing on a selection of maps of ‘Australia’, the following attributes are found in some of these maps: myth and imagination, memory, power and the evolution of a
Coppard, Sally A.
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XOPÓS = Chorós : the dance of Adam:The Making of Byzantine Chorography. The Anthropology of the Choir of Dance in Byzantium

open access: yes, 2011
This book is of great value as regards the originality and the novelty of the subject. It introduces for the first time a new concept in Byzantine studies, and a tool for research of sacred space (¿¿¿¿¿).
Isar, Nicoletta
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Eleven Antitheses on Cities and States: Challenging the Mindscape of Chronology and Chorography in Anthropogenic Climate Change

open access: yes, 2016
Our basic argument is that we should be thinking in trans-modern ways when considering how to react to anthropogenic climate change. Showing that mainstream approaches to climate change theory and policymaking are overtly modern, we identify this as a ...
O'Brien, Geoff   +2 more
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