The Cartographic Representation and Analysis of (Slovene) Writer-Careers: Methodology and First Results of the Slovene Project

Abstract

This paper is part of the first phase of the research project “The Space of Slovenian Literary Culture” (2011–2014). One of the central aims of the project is to map, with the help of GIS, the literary biographical data of prominent Slovene writers from the beginnings of aesthetic production in the Slovene lands (1779) until 1940, before the WW II began in the Slovene lands. Data selection for mapping entries and the means of their representation follow critically the more recent achievements in literary geography (H. D. Schlosser), whose key work on literary mapping was published in 1983. The literary maps are extremely important to us from the point of view of the series of biographical data selected. Taking their solutions into account together with the purposes of the Slovene project, we offer some suggestions for the formation of thematic analytical maps to facilitate a contemporary areal analysis of Slovene literary culture.