The Murderer's Ape: Wegelius Jakob

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The methodology for the visualized mapping of the novel is influenced by Italian literary critic Franco Moretti. In Atlas of the European Novel, Moretti ( 1998) develops a method for mapping authorships and genres by plotting toponyms on a map. The maps he creates do not merely show where a narrative is set. Rather, they are “analytical tools that pose new questions, and force you to look for new answers” (Moretti, 1998, p. 4). Moretti explains his method in straightforward terms: “you select a textual feature, find the data, put them on paper—and then you look at the map. In the hope that the visual construct will be more than the sum of its parts: that it will show a shape, a pattern that may add something to the information that went into making it” ( 1998, p. 13). Thus, mapping does not merely involve plotting places on a map, but requires close interaction with and analysis of the text. When Koskela is falsely accused of murder, Sally finds herself on her own in Lisbon, a beautiful city that is full of people that fear her. Fortunately, she finds fada-singer Ana and a local café owner to help her follow the clues to unravel the mystery surrounding who framed Koskela.

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Merrifield, Andrew (1993). Place and Space: a Lefebvrian Reconciliation. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 18(4), 516–531.Lefebvre himself did not go into detail on the distinction between space and place, and it has become a highly contentious topic in critical discussion. For example, Andrew Merrifield ( 1993) conceptualizes the two concepts in the article “Place and Space: a Lefebvrian Reconciliation”. Created by environmental activist Trang Nguyen and award-winning manga artist Jeet Zdung, this is a great story that will delight young animal activists and enthusiasts, based on a true story. A dark and dangerous world peopled by dwarves, shape-shifting vixen, mythical beasts and stone Goyls lurks on the other side of the ornate mirror in Jacob's father's study. Pavlik, Anthony, and Bird, Hazel Sheeky. (2017). Introduction: Maps and Mapping in Children’s and Young Adult Literature. Children’s Literature in Education, 48, 1–5. Accessed April 18, 2021, from https://doi.org/10.1007/s10583-016-9303-5 Lyngstad, Anne Berit, and Samoilow, Tatjana Kielland. (2022, forthcoming). Det kosmopolitiske mulighetsrommet i Jakob Wegelius’ Mördarens apa (2014). In Agora. Journal for metafysisk spekulasjon. No. 2-3.

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Highly recommended as a book to share at bedtime, as it has plenty of appeal for adults, or for confident readers of ten or older, as it is quite long. I don’t know when I last read a book with such pure and unalloyed pleasure. It’s ingenious, it’s moving, it’s charming, it’s beautiful, it’s exciting, and most importantly the characters are people I feel I know like old friends’– Philip Pullman Palo, Annbritt, and Manderstedt, Lena. (2018). Bildens status i läsarkommentarer på nätet. Narrativ interaktion i Jakob Wegelius Legenden om Sally Jones och Mördarens apa. Barnboken, 41. Accessed April 18, 2021 from https://doi.org/10.14811/clr.v41i0.336. Sundmark, Björn. (2019). Maps in Children’s Books: From Playworld and Childhood Geography to Comic Fantasy and Picturebook Art. Filoteknos, 9, 123–137. Accessed April 18, 2021, from https://doi.org/10.23817/filotek.9-9.Robinson, Will. (2014). Orientalism and Abstraction in Eurogames. Analog Game Studies, 8(1). Accessed April 18, 2021 at: https://analoggamestudies.org/2014/12/orientalism-and-abstraction-in-eurogames/

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Hunt, Peter. (2015). Unstable Metaphors: Symbolic Spaces and Specific Places. In Maria Sachiko Cecire, Hanna Field, Kavita Mudan Finn and Malini Roy (Eds.), Place and Space in Children’s Literature 1789 to the Present (pp. 23–37) . Surrey: Ashgate.Palo, Annbritt, and Manderstedt, Lena. (2019). Beyond Characters and the Reader? Digital Discussions on Intersectionality in The Murderer’s Ape. Children’s Literature in Education, 50(1). Accessed April 18, 2021 from https://doi.org/10.1007/s10583-017-9338-2. Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. I began mapping The Murderer’s Ape by marking every toponym in the text. Inspired by the classification of places developed by Piatti et al. ( 2009) in the project A Literary Atlas of Europe, I differentiated between places of action, projected places (that characters remember or dream of) and markers (places that are merely mentioned). Footnote 2 On the basis of the gathered data, I compiled a number of lists comprising the place names, their frequency and the associated geographic coordinates (longitude and latitude). The lists corresponded to the following questions: Where does the action take place? What does the novel’s complete geography look like when every place name mentioned in the text is included? What is the geography of India and Lisbon? What does the characters’ geography look like?