{"id":12,"date":"2012-08-06T16:02:46","date_gmt":"2012-08-06T16:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nd.edu\/knownworld\/?page_id=12"},"modified":"2012-10-30T12:21:46","modified_gmt":"2012-10-30T16:21:46","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/knownworld\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Fictions of the Known World<\/strong>\u00a0is the official blog of the class by same name at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nd.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">University of Notre Dame<\/a>, taught during the Fall of 2012.<\/p>\n<p>The purpose of this class is to start a discussion about the relationship between literature and the \u201cknown world\u201d \u2013 about the ways, in other words, in which fictional texts create, uphold and deform our understanding of the spatial structure of the world in which we live.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, the course also asks to what extent geographical information systems \u2013 from ancient maps to modern web technology \u2013 can aid our understanding of literature.<\/p>\n<p>The class is taught as a writing-intensive \u201cUniversity Seminar,\u201d meaning that all students are first-semester freshmen at Notre Dame.\u00a0 Blog content will be created jointly by all students and by the instructor,\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:tboes@nd.edu\" target=\"_blank\">Prof. Tobias Boes<\/a>, who teaches in the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/germanandrussian.nd.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Department of German<\/a>.\u00a0 The official course number is GE 13186 (Fall 2012).\u00a0 A longer description of what this course is about can be found in the \u201cSyllabus\u201d section of this page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fictions of the Known World\u00a0is the official blog of the class by same name at the\u00a0University of Notre Dame, taught during the Fall of 2012. The purpose of this class is to start a discussion about the relationship between literature &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/knownworld\/about\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":384,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/knownworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/knownworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/knownworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/knownworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/384"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/knownworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/knownworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/knownworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions\/243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/knownworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}