Turchi

So, to go towards another ongoing project on creativity and education, two particularly lovely books: Fifty Modern Thinkers on Education, edited by Joy Palmer and a wonderful book to dip into, and Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer by Peter Turchi, which is full of colour reproductions of some gorgeous and unusual maps.

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The museum is in the colonnaded Venetian-Byzantine Palazzo Il Fontego dei Turchi — translated as "The Warehouse of the Turks," one of the biggest palaces on the Grand Canal and the 17th-century base for Turkish merchants.

Venice Crossings: A Traghetto Tour Reveals the City's Other Side 2008

Fondaco dei Turchi-San Marcuola Start with a coffee on the Campo San Giacomo dell'Orio, behind the Byzantine church of that name.

Venice Crossings: A Traghetto Tour Reveals the City's Other Side 2008

Early on, Turchi admits that The structure of each chapter is associative.

Maps of the Imagination 2004

I have some quibbles -- ideas I would love to have seen Turchi elaborate, a general desire for footnotes the references and citations are maddeningly incomplete and an index.

Maps of the Imagination 2004

Early on, Turchi admits that The structure of each chapter is associative.

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I have some quibbles -- ideas I would love to have seen Turchi elaborate, a general desire for footnotes the references and citations are maddeningly incomplete and an index.

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I have never heard a writer who is a self-described realist admit as strongly as Turchi does that realism is simply one mode among many:Words can never be a simple reflection of life.

Maps of the Imagination 2004

Maps of the Imagination may also be a bit of a revolution, because it is a book by a writer who is himself devoted to writing traditional stories of psychological realism, but who can get excited by John Barth, Italo Calvino, OULIPO, and other writers of what Turchi calls "post-realism".

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I have never heard a writer who is a self-described realist admit as strongly as Turchi does that realism is simply one mode among many:Words can never be a simple reflection of life.

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