John Wylie

Landscape

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Landscape is a stimulating introduction to and contemporary understanding of one of the most important concepts within human geography. A series of different influential readings of landscape are debated and explored, and, for the first time, distinctive traditions of landscape writing are brought together and examined as a whole, in a forward-looking critical review of work by cultural geographers and others within the last twenty to thirty years. This book clearly and concisely explores a landscapea (TM) theories and writings, allowing students of geography, environmental studies and cultural studies to fully comprehend this vast and complex topic. To aid the student, vignettes are used to highlight key writers, papers and texts. Annotated further reading and student exercises are also included. For researchers and lecturers, Landscape presents a forward-looking synthesis of hitherto disparate fields of inquiry, one which offers a platform for future research and writing.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 142mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780415341431
• ISBN-10: 0415341434
• Artikelnr.: 21951627

Autorenporträt

DR JOHN WYLIE is Senior Lecturer in Cultural Geography in the School of Geography, Archaeology and Earth Resources at the University of Exeter. His research and teaching focuses upon landscape, the body and creative critical practice in cultural geography

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 1.1 Tensions 1.2 Aims and Structures of Landscape 1.3
Conclusion: Looking Forward 2. Landscaping Traditions 2.1 Introduction 2.2
Carl Sauer and Cultural Landscape 2.3 W.G. Hoskins: Landscape, Nostalgia
and Melancholy 2.4 J.B. Jackson and 'Vernacular' Landscape 2.5 Conclusion
3. Ways of Seeing 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Landscape and Linear Perspective:
Art, Geometry, Optics 3.3 Cultural Marxism, Art History and Landscape 3.4
Cultural Marxism and Cultural Geography: Landscape as 'Veil' 3.5 Landscape
as Text: Semiotics and the Construction of Cultural Meaning 3.6 Feminism
and Psychoanalysis: Landscape as Gaze 3.7 Discussion and Summary 4.
Cultures of Landscape 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Material Anxieties 4.3
Landscape, Production and Labour 4.4 Cultures of Landscape: The Self, Power
and Discourse 4.5 Landscape, Travel and Imperialism 4.6 Conclusion 5.
Landscape Phenomenology 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Introducing
Phenomenology: From Disembodied Gaze to Lived Body 5.3 Landscape and
Dwelling 5.4 'Landscaping': Phenomenology, Non-representational Theory and
Performance 5.5 Critiques of Landscape Phenomenology 5.6 Conclusion 6.
Prospects for Landscape 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Memory, Identity, Conflict and
Justice 6.3 Landscape and Polity and Law 6.4 The Ends of Landscape?:
Relationality, Vitalism and Topological 6.5 Landscape Writing: Biography,
Movement, Presence and Affect 6.6 Conclusion: Creative Tensions