Abstract
Alexandria and Istanbul, through diverse texts and writers, meet and intersect in their attempt to reconstruct and rebuild the metropolis’s character. Our method advocates spatiotemporal events in augmented literature that enable reflection of the palimpsest of historical frames. On a higher level, what we propose in this work is the dialogic field between the two metropolises, as it could be provided by novels’ chronotopes with the aid of augmented reality. We undertake a twofold task, to reveal the awareness of the connections between places and the connection and attachment of particular spaces, by unifying two approaches. First, Ecocriticism that comprises the ways in which novels express socio-cultural frameworks of the natural environment. The second approach is based on the strong interrelations of place engagement with collective and cultural memory. The linking of both urban, spatial geometry and topology with the waterscape for both metropolises, in our proposed conceptualization of a chronotope-based augmented continuum, endeavors to provide, firstly, the dialogic relations between the two metropolises, between each metropolis and the waterscape and, secondly, between urbanscape and waterscape and the novels’ fictional frameworks. Within the framework of the augmented reality, we synthesize the writers’ fictional cities with the factual surroundings of the metropolises in order to reconstruct the fragmented natural and architectural urban views in the continuity of the urban fabric, thus ending up proposing a dynamic repository of the metropolis landscape’s natural, collective and cultural memory.
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Literary tourism was studied as a catalyst for the experience and communication of cultural values and meanings [5]
The emphasis is on a model of immersive experience and embodiment that focuses on meanings, feelings, “atmospheres”, values and connotations that novels reveal from associative urban landscapes
Summary
Publisher’s Note: MDPI stays neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. The writers (permanent residents or occasional visitors, tourists and travelers) are emotionally involved with their environment and they reproduce and recreate cultural concepts through their physical-bodily adaptation, the perception they have established as experience and memory reserve for urban places. In this parallel “intercultural and intertextual” spatial formulation, the metropolis’s physiognomy emerges neither with the absolutes of a town-planning event nor with the clarity of a map or a factual historical context, but as a constantly changing field of significance and meanings that can afford many interpretations and readings. Such an approach could support and further enhance the sense of place and place-attachment of inhabitants, newcomers and visitors
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