Writing Worlds (eBook, PDF)

Discourse, Text and Metaphor in the Representation of Landscape
Redaktion: Barnes, Trevor J.; Duncan, James S.

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Produktbeschreibung

This book applies poststructuralist ideas to landscape representation. Drawing upon the themes of discourse, text and metaphor, the contributors examine a wide range of different geographical writings.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317832911
• Artikelnr.: 40299470

Autorenporträt

Trevor J. Barnes, James S. Duncan

Inhaltsangabe

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