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Writing Worlds
Discourse, Text and Metaphor in the Representation of Landscape
- 296 pages
- English
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eBook - ePub
Writing Worlds
Discourse, Text and Metaphor in the Representation of Landscape
About this book
Writing Worlds represents the first systematic attempt to apply poststructuralist ideas to landscape representation. Landscape - city, countryside and wilderness - is explored through the discourse of economics, geopolitics and urban planning, travellers descriptions, propaganda maps, cartography and geometry, poetry and painting. The book aims to deconstruct geographical representation in order to explore the dynamics of power in the way we see the world.
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Yes, you can access Writing Worlds by Trevor J. Barnes,James S. Duncan in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Physical Sciences & Geography. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Preface and acknowledgements
- 1. Introduction: Writing Worlds
- 2. Ideology and Bliss: Roland Barthes and the Secret Histories of Landscape
- 3. The Implications of Industry: Turner and Leeds
- 4. Reading the Texts of Niagara Falls: The Metaphor of Death
- 5. The Slightly Different Thing that is said: Writing the Aesthetic Experience
- 6. Lines of Power
- 7. The Architectonic Impulse and the Reconceptualization of the Concrete in Contemporary Geography
- 8. Reading the Texts of Theoretical Economic Geography: The Role of Physical and Biological Metaphors
- 9. Metaphor, Geopolitical Discourse and the Military in South America
- 10. Foreign Policy and the Hyperreal: The Reagan Administration and the Scripting of ‘South Africa’
- 11. Portland’s Comprehensive Plan as Text: The Fred Meyer Case and the Politics of Reading
- 12. Texts, Hermeneutics and Propaganda Maps
- 13. Deconstructing the Map
- 14. Afterword
- Bibliography
- Index