Writing Worlds
Discourse, Text and Metaphor in the Representation of Landscape
Published on 5. December 1991
Book
Hardback
300 pages
978-0-415-05499-7 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
`...an excellent contribution which gives a good idea of the postmodernist ways of thinking by geographers, of the sources of their concepts and of the range of their concepts. This book should be read by many geographers employed in academic teaching and research.' - Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie`Writing Worlds is a challenging book and the metaphor of `Landscape-as-text' merits wider debate within geography.' - Progress in Human Geography
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
617 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-05499-7 (9780415054997)
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Trevor J. Barnes | James S. Duncan
Writing Worlds
Discourse, Text and Metaphor in the Representation of Landscape
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12/2013
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Trevor J. Barnes | James S. Duncan
Writing Worlds
Discourse, Text and Metaphor in the Representation of Landscape
E-Book
12/2013
1st Edition
Routledge
€77.99
Available for download
Trevor J. Barnes | James S. Duncan
Writing Worlds
Discourse, Text and Metaphor in the Representation of Landscape
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11/2011
1st Edition
Routledge
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Persons
Trevor J. Barnes, James S. Duncan
Content
List of Contributors Preface and Acknowledgements Chapter 1. Introduction: Writing Worlds Trevor J. Barnes and James S. Duncan 2. Ideology and Bliss: Roland Barthes and the Secret Histories of Landscape James S. Duncan and Nancy G. Duncan 3. The Implications of Industry: Turner and Leeds Stephen Daniels 4. Reading the Text of Niagara Falls: The Metaphor of Death Patrick McGreevy 5. The Slightly Different Thing that is Said: Writing the Aesthetic Experience Jonathan Smith 6. Lines of Power Gunnar Olsson 7. Ways of Life in the Twentieth Century; Rethinking Solid Ground in the Social Sciences Michael R. Curry 8. Reading the Texts of Economic Geography: The Role of Physical and Biological Metaphors Trevor J. Barnes 9. Metaphor, Geopolitical Discourse and the Military in South America Leslie W. Hepple 10. Foreign Policy and the Hyperreal: The Reagan Administration and the Scripting of `South Africa' Gearoid O Tuathail 11. Portland's Comprehensive Plan as Text: The Fred Meyer Case and the Politics of Reading Judith Kenny 12. Texts, Hermeneutics and Propaganda Maps John Pickles 13. Deconstructing the Map J. B. Harley 14. Afterword James S. Duncan and Trevor J. Barnes