Difference Network: Video of Speakers from Marquette Events
Title
Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer
Document Type
Presentation
Publication Date
7-10-2009
Abstract
ABOUT THE TALK: Turchi compares an author’s ability to guide a reader through a fictional narrative to the way a mapmaker charts the physical world.
ABOUT THE SERIES: Turchi spoke at Marquette’s Haggerty Museum of Art. The event was sponsored by the Helen Way Klingler College of Arts and Sciences, Office of Student Development, Department of English and Marquette Writing Society.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Peter Turchi is the award-winning author of Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer, published in 2004. In addition to receiving the Outstanding Academic Titles 2005 award by Choice Magazine, Maps of the Imagination has won seven design awards for its unique illustrations, including a silver medal in the Stiftung Buchkunst International Design competition.
Recommended Citation
Turchi, Peter, "Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer" (2009). Difference Network: Video of Speakers from Marquette Events. 2.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/difference/2
Comments
See also: Peter Turchi's website