Landscape In Literature

Author : Stephen Siddall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009-05-21
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780521729826

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Landscape and Literature by Stephen Siddall Pdf

Critical introductions to a range of literary topics and genres. Landscape and Literature introduces students to the exploration of different ways in which landscape has been represented in literature. It focuses on key aspects of this topic such as the importance of pastoral, contrasts between city and country, eighteenth-century developments from neo-classical to picturesque and Romantic ideas of the sublime, regional novels of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and varied styles of twentieth-century poetry from the Georgian poets to Heaney and Hughes. Poems and prose extracts from writers such as Marvell, Wordsworth, George Eliot, Hardy, Lawrence and Seamus Heaney are included.

Author : Jane Suzanne Carroll
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136321177

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Landscape in Children's Literature by Jane Suzanne Carroll Pdf

This book provides a new critical methodology for the study of landscapes in children's literature. Treating landscape as the integration of unchanging and irreducible physical elements, or topoi, Carroll identifies and analyses four kinds of space — sacred spaces, green spaces, roadways, and lapsed spaces — that are the component elements of the physical environments of canonical British children’s fantasy. Using Susan Cooper's The Dark Is Rising Sequence as the test-case for this methodology, the book traces the development of the physical features and symbolic functions of landscape topoi from their earliest inception in medieval vernacular texts through to contemporary children's literature. The identification and analysis of landscape topoi synthesizes recent theories about interstitial space together with earlier morphological and topoanalytical studies, enabling the study of fictional landscapes in terms of their physical characteristics as well as in terms of their relationship with contemporary texts and historical precedents. Ultimately, by providing topoanalytical studies of other children’s texts, Carroll proposes topoanalysis as a rich critical method for the study and understanding of children’s literature and indicates how the findings of this approach may be expanded upon. In offering both transferable methodologies and detailed case-studies, this book outlines a new approach to literary landscapes as geographical places within socio-historical contexts.

Author : Daniel Weston
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317160755

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Contemporary Literary Landscapes by Daniel Weston Pdf

Writing landscapes inevitably occurs in dialogue with a long textual and pictorial tradition, but first-hand experience also provides key stimuli to many writers’ accounts. This monograph employs a comparative lens to offer an intervention in debates between literary scholars who focus on genre and those cultural geographers who are concerned that self-perpetuating literary tropes marginalize practical engagements. Suggesting that representation and experience are not competing paradigms for landscape, Daniel Weston argues that in the hands of contemporary writers they are complementary forces building composite articulations of place. In five case studies, Weston matches a writer to a mode of apprehending place - W.G. Sebald with picturing, Ciaran Carson with mapping, Iain Sinclair with walking, Robert Macfarlane with engaging, Kathleen Jamie with noticing. Drawing out a range of sites at which representation and experience interact, Weston's argument is twofold: first, interaction between traditions of landscape writing and direct experience of landscapes are mutually influential; and second, writers increasingly deploy style, form, and descriptive aesthetics to recover the experience of place in the poetics of the text itself. As Weston shows, emergent landscape writing shuttles across generic boundaries, reflecting the fact that the landscapes traversed are built out of a combination of real and imaginary sources.

Author : William Atkins
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780571290062

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The Moor by William Atkins Pdf

In this deeply personal journey across our nation's most forbidding and most mysterious terrain, William Atkins takes the reader from south to north, in search of the heart of this elusive landscape. His account is both travelogue and natural history, and an exploration of moorland's uniquely captivating position in our literature, history and psyche. Atkins may be a solitary wanderer across these vast expanses, but his journey is full of encounters, busy with the voices of the moors, past and present: murderers and monks, smugglers and priests, gamekeepers and ramblers, miners and poets, developers and environmentalists. As he travels, he shows us that the fierce landscapes we associate with Wuthering Heights and The Hound of the Baskervilles are far from being untouched wildernesses. Daunting and defiant, the moors echo with tales of a country and the people who live in it - a mighty, age-old landscape standing steadfast against the passage of time.

Author : Michael D. O'Brien
Publisher : Ignatius Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781681490120

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A Landscape with Dragons by Michael D. O'Brien Pdf

The Harry Potter series of books and movies are wildly popular. Many Christians see the books as largely if not entirely harmless. Others regard them as dangerous and misleading. In his book A Landscape with Dragons, Harry Potter critic Michael O'Brien examines contemporary children's literature and finds it spiritually and morally wanting. His analysis, written before the rise of the popular Potter books and films, anticipates many of the problems Harry Potter critics point to. A Landscape with Dragons is a controversial, yet thoughtful study of what millions of young people are reading and the possible impact such reading may have on them. In this study of the pagan invasion of children's culture, O'Brien, the father of six, describes his own coming to terms with the effect it has had on his family and on most families in Western society. His analysis of the degeneration of books, films, and videos for the young is incisive and detailed. Yet his approach is not simply critical, for he suggests a number of remedies, including several tools of discernment for parents and teachers in assessing the moral content and spiritual impact of this insidious revolution. In doing so, he points the way to rediscovery of time-tested sources, and to new developments in Christian culture. If you have ever wondered why a certain children's book or film made you feel uneasy, but you couldn't figure out why, this book is just what you need. This completely revised, much expanded second edition also includes a very substantial recommended reading list of over 1,000 books for kindergarten through highschool.

Author : R. Ebbatson
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1137330430

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Landscape and Literature 1830-1914 by R. Ebbatson Pdf

This study examines the vital centrality of 'readings' of nature in a variety of literary forms in the period 1830-1914. It is exploratory and original in approach, stressing the philosophical and cultural implications in a range of texts from Tennyson, Hardy, Jefferies and Thomas.

Author : Kate Gilhuly,Nancy Worman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-22
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781107042124

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Space, Place, and Landscape in Ancient Greek Literature and Culture by Kate Gilhuly,Nancy Worman Pdf

This book brings together a collection of original essays that engage with cultural geography and landscape studies to produce new ways of understanding place, space, and landscape in Greek literature from the fifth and fourth centuries BCE. The authors draw on an eclectic collection of contemporary approaches to bring the study of ancient Greek literature into dialogue with the burgeoning discussion of spatial theory in the humanities. The essays in this volume treat a variety of textual spaces, from the intimate to the expansive: the bedroom, ritual space, the law courts, theatrical space, the poetics of the city, and the landscape of war. And yet, all of the contributions are united by an interest in recuperating some of the many ways in which the ancient Greeks in the archaic and classical periods invested places with meaning and in how the representation of place links texts to social practices.

Author : Christopher L. Salter,William J. Lloyd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1070044414

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Landscape in Literature by Christopher L. Salter,William J. Lloyd Pdf

Author : John Irvine Little
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487510435

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Fashioning the Canadian Landscape by John Irvine Little Pdf

Interpretations of Canada's emerging identity have been largely based on a relatively small corpus of literary writing and landscape paintings, overlooking the influence of the British and American travel writers who published hundreds of books and articles that did much to fix the image of Canada in the popular imagination. In Fashioning the Canadian Landscape, J.I. Little examines how Canada, much like the United States, came to be identified with its natural landscape. Little argues that in contrast to the American identification with the wilderness sublime, however, Canada’s image was strongly influenced by the picturesque convention favoured by British travel writers. This amply illustrated volume includes chapters ranging from Labrador to British Columbia, some of which focus on such notable British authors as Rupert Brooke and Rudyard Kipling, and others on talented American writers such as Charles Dudley Warner. Based not only on the views of the landscape but on the racist descriptions of the Indigenous peoples and the romanticization of the Canadian ‘folk’, Little argues that the national image that emerged was colonialist as well as colonial in nature.

Author : Christopher Tilley,Kate Cameron-Daum
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781911307433

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Anthropology of Landscape by Christopher Tilley,Kate Cameron-Daum Pdf

An Anthropology of Landscape tells the fascinating story of a heathland landscape in south-west England and the way different individuals and groups engage with it. Based on a long-term anthropological study, the book emphasises four individual themes: embodied identities, the landscape as a sensuous material form that is acted upon and in turn acts on people, the landscape as contested, and its relation to emotion. The landscape is discussed in relation to these themes as both ‘taskscape’ and ‘leisurescape’, and from the perspective of different user groups. First, those who manage the landscape and use it for work: conservationists, environmentalists, archaeologists, the Royal Marines, and quarrying interests. Second, those who use it in their leisure time: cyclists and horse riders, model aircraft flyers, walkers, people who fish there, and artists who are inspired by it. The book makes an innovative contribution to landscape studies and will appeal to all those interested in nature conservation, historic preservation, the politics of nature, the politics of identity, and an anthropology of Britain.

Author : Herbert Gottfried
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780739176092

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Landscape in American Guides and View Books by Herbert Gottfried Pdf

This is the first published study of American printed souvenirs and their relationship to the development of touring and immigration. Grounded in scenic thinking, captured in prints and photographic images, the books communicate social and cultural intentions in the landscape and provide commentary on American life.

Author : Judith W. Page,Elise L. Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780521768658

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Women, Literature, and the Domesticated Landscape by Judith W. Page,Elise L. Smith Pdf

An interdisciplinary study of the 'domesticated' or home landscape as it shapes women's lives and their ways of writing.

Author : Paul Shepard
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010-07-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780820327143

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Man in the Landscape by Paul Shepard Pdf

A pioneering exploration of the roots of our attitudes toward nature, Paul Shepard's most seminal work is as challenging and provocative today as when it first appeared in 1967. Man in the Landscape was among the first books of a new genre that has elucidated the ideas, beliefs, and images that lie behind our modern destruction and conservation of the natural world. Departing from the traditional study of land use as a history of technology, this book explores the emergence of modern attitudes in literature, art, and architecture--their evolutionary past and their taproot in European and Mediterranean cultures. With humor and wit, Shepard considers the influence of Christianity on ideas of nature, the absence of an ethic of nature in modern philosophy, and the obsessive themes of dominance and control as elements of the modern mind. In his discussions of the exploration of the American West, the establishment of the first national parks, and the reactions of pioneers to their totally new habitat, he identifies the transport of traditional imagery into new places as a sort of cultural baggage.

Author : Cynthia Farah Haines
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173022983652

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Literature & Landscape by Cynthia Farah Haines Pdf

Fifty of the Southwest's most prominent writers answer the question, "What role has the Southwestern landscape played in compelling you to write?"

Author : William John Thomas Mitchell,W. J. T. Mitchell
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2002-04-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 0226532054

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Landscape and Power, Second Edition by William John Thomas Mitchell,W. J. T. Mitchell Pdf

This text considers landscape not simply as an object to be seen or a text to be read, but as an instrument of cultural force, a central tool in the creation of national and social identities. This edition adds a new preface and five new essays.