The place of landscape : concepts, contexts, studies / edited by Jeff Malpas.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Malpas, Jeff.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Landscapes.

Physical Description:

xiii, 369 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2011]

Contents:

I Concepts of Landscape 1

1 Place and the Problem of Landscape / Jeff Malpas Malpas, Jeff 3

2 "Landscape" as a Kind of Place-Relation / Wesley A. Kort Kort, Wesley A. 27

3 "Whitefellas Have to Learn about Country, It Is Not Just Land": How Landscape Becomes Country and Not an "Imagined" Place / John J. Bradley Bradley, John J. 45

4 Landscapes as Temporalspatial Phenomena / Theodore R. Schatzki Schatzki, Theodore R. 65

5 The Edge(s) of Landscape: A Study in Liminology / Edward S. Casey Casey, Edward S. 91

II Contexts for Landscape 111

6 Geographic Landscapes and Natural Disaster / J. Nicholas Entrikin Entrikin, J. Nicholas 113

7 The Political Meaning of Landscape (Through the Lens of Hannah Arendt's The Human Condition) / Bernard Debarbieux Debarbieux, Bernard 131

8 Entry and Distance: Sublimity in Landscape / Andrew Benjamin Benjamin, Andrew 151

9 Reinterpreting the Picturesque in the Experience of Landscape / Isis Brook Brook, Isis 165

10 Garden, City, or Wilderness? Landscape and Destiny in the Christian Imagination / Philip Sheldrake Sheldrake, Philip 183

III Studies in Landscape 203

11 "All foreground without distance": The Rise of Landscape in Late Medieval Painting / Reinhard Steiner Steiner, Reinhard 205

12 Landscapes of Class in Contemporary Chinese Film: From Yellow Earth to Still Life / Stephanie Hemelryk Donald Donald, Stephanie Hemelryk 227

13 Searching for a Place in the World: The Landscape of Ford's The Searchers / Ross Gibson Gibson, Ross 245

14 Framing the Landscape: The Anglo-Florentine View / Katie Campbell Campbell, Katie 257

15 This Green Unpleasant Land: Landscape and Contemporary Britain / Michael Rosenthal Rosenthal, Michael 273

16 The Lie of the Land: Reflections on Irish Nature and Landscape / Nigel Everett Everett, Nigel 295.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [319]-345) and index.

ISBN:

9780262015523

0262015528

OCLC:

667610072