Critique of Cartographic Reason: Tolstoj on the Media of War
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Critique of Cartographic Reason : Tolstoj on the Media of War. / Engberg-Pedersen, Anders.
I: Russian Literature, Bind 77, Nr. 3, 2015, s. 307-336.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Critique of Cartographic Reason
T2 - Tolstoj on the Media of War
AU - Engberg-Pedersen, Anders
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - The military efforts during the Napoleonic Wars gave rise to a large-scale cartographic enterprise across the European continent. As a medium of war, military maps served the purpose of orchestrating the “grand operations” of several distinct army corps in space. After the wars, however, the maps migrate into a different medium: the literary text. This article examines how Tolstoi's War and Peace grapples with a central problem for the 19th century novel, viz. the role of different media, literary and cartographic, in the representation and management of large-scale war. Tolstoi, the author argues, transposes the military conflict to the representational level and stages a struggle between the two media and the different military theories of the time that accompany them. Operating at this meta-level, War and Peace serves as a highly complex and self-conscious examination of the media of war
AB - The military efforts during the Napoleonic Wars gave rise to a large-scale cartographic enterprise across the European continent. As a medium of war, military maps served the purpose of orchestrating the “grand operations” of several distinct army corps in space. After the wars, however, the maps migrate into a different medium: the literary text. This article examines how Tolstoi's War and Peace grapples with a central problem for the 19th century novel, viz. the role of different media, literary and cartographic, in the representation and management of large-scale war. Tolstoi, the author argues, transposes the military conflict to the representational level and stages a struggle between the two media and the different military theories of the time that accompany them. Operating at this meta-level, War and Peace serves as a highly complex and self-conscious examination of the media of war
U2 - 10.1016/j.ruslit.2015.04.002
DO - 10.1016/j.ruslit.2015.04.002
M3 - Journal article
VL - 77
SP - 307
EP - 336
JO - Russian Literature
JF - Russian Literature
SN - 0304-3479
IS - 3
ER -
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