Deep Chrontopes

Harrison - Deep Chronotopic Map

The Gawain poem contains the first use of the word 'pentangle', (for a five-pointed star), in the English language. The pentangle is also the design on Gawain’s shield and represents the knight in a range of ways, symbolically. For this reason, it seems almost incredible that the most striking aspect for the chronotopic map of the spatial types of Harrison is the automated generation of a pentangle shape between key sites. But here it is. The pentangle is created by the relatively limited spatial arenas of the text which are nonetheless tightly interconnected.

The tools used to make these visualisations are available on Github at
https://github.com/chronotopic-cartographies/visualisation-generators.