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9780415054997

Writing Worlds: Discourse, Text and Metaphor in the Representation of Landscape

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415054997

  • ISBN10:

    0415054990

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1991-12-20
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

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.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Writing Worlds
Ideology and Bliss: Roland Barthes and the Secret Histories of Landscape
The Implications of Industry: Turner
Reading the Text of Niagara Falls: The Metaphor of Death
The Slightly Different Thing that is Said: Writing the Aesthetic Experience
Lines of Power
Ways of Life in the Twentieth Century; Rethinking Solid Ground in the Social Sciences
Reading the Texts of Economic Geography: The Role of Physical and Biological Metaphors
Metaphor, Geopolitical Discourse and the Military in South America
Foreign Policy and the Hyperreal: The Reagan Administration and the Scripting of `South Africa'
Portland's Comprehensive Plan as Text: The Fred Meyer Case and the Politics of Reading
Texts, Hermeneutics and Propaganda Maps
Deconstructing the
Afterword
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