Creative Dynamics -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Mapping practices -- The diagrammatic nature of maps -- Cartographic signs and verbal language -- Map use -- Mapping processes -- Map design -- Reading off the map -- The cartographic sign and its relations -- Modern maps - the shift from indexicality to iconicity -- 2. Cartographic writing -- Visualization -- Territories and their objects -- Mapping Robinson -- Crusoe's maps -- A 'new' way of mapping 'new space' -- 3. Reading as remapping: Cartographic performances -- Modern maps -- Fantasy and science fiction - mapping modern Utopia -- Children's books -- Postmodern maps - reflecting the crisis of representation -- Maps in crime fiction as political and social criticism -- Exploring the interplay between visuality and narrativity -- Mapping as metaphysical speculations on writing and being -- 4. Postcolonial mappings -- Maps as revisionary readings -- Representing the relationship between postcolonial space and social construction -- Spatial perception, visual representation, and power -- The body as landscape, as a repository of inherited wrongs -- 5. Remapping the past: The case of photography -- More useful maps of the real -- The photograph as narrative prop -- Performing the search for the past -- Revealing hidden patterns -- 6. Cognitive approaches to textual interpretation -- Cognition and literary interpretation -- Performative mappings of poetry -- Performative mapping of fiction -- Intertextual mappings -- References -- Author index -- Subject index.