Imagining spaces and places / edited by Saija Isomaa ... [and others]

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Isomaa, Saija.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art, Modern--21st century--History and criticism.

Art, Modern.

Architecture, Modern--21st century--History and criticism.

Architecture, Modern.

Literature, Modern--21st century--History and criticism.

Literature, Modern.

Physical Description:

xx, 326 pages : illustrations, (some color) ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K. : Cambridge Scholars Press, 2013.

Summary:

Imagining Spaces and Places seeks to produce an interdisciplinary dialogue between art history and literature studies and other fields of cultural analysis that work with the concepts of space, place and various "scapes" such as cityscapes, bodyscapes, mindscapes and memoryscapes, as well as the more familiar landscapes. The volume was inspired by new lines of study that underline the experiential and multidimensional aspects of spaces. We explore how art, literature or urban spaces forge "scapes" by imposing or suggesting aesthetic, evaluative or ideological orderings and perceptual as well as emotive perspectives on the "raw material" or on previous ways of spatial worldmaking. We look at the role of cultural and artistic renderings of space in relation to everyday experiences of spaces. We examine how the experiences of places are mediated in various art forms and other cultural discourses or practices and how these discourses contribute to the understanding of particular places and also to understanding space in more general terms. Imagining Spaces and Places is addressed to scholars and teachers working at the intersection of cultural and spatial analyses, as well as to their undergraduate and postgraduate students. Book jacket.

Contents:

I Remembered and Sensed Spaces

Memory and Place from the Red Center of Australia to the Periphery of Paris: To See the Frame that Blinds Us / Claire Farago Farago, Claire 3

Multisensory Memories and the Spaces of Suburban Childhood in the Greater Helsinki Region in the 1950s and 1960s / Kirsi Saarikangas Saarikangas, Kirsi 27

II Urban Spaces

Urban Imagery between Enchantment and Disenchantment / Bart Keunen Keunen, Bart 57

How Cultural? How Material? Rereading the Slums of Early Victorian London / Jason Finch Finch, Jason 85

Making and Taming "Messy Space": The Contested Nature of Historical Space in Urban China / Philipp Demgenski Demgenski, Philipp 107

III National Spaces

Cabins and National Identity in Norwegian Literature / Ellen Rees Rees, Ellen 125

Constructions of Space: The Literary Configuration of "the English Countryside" / Angela Locatelli Locatelli, Angela 143

"There in Thousands of Lakes the Stars of the Night Glimmer": Lakescapes in Literature / Pirjo Lyytikäinen Lyytikäinen, Pirjo 161

IV Locations

Sites of Slavery: Imperial Narratives, Plantation Architecture and the Ideology of the Romance of the South / Julia Faisst Faisst, Julia 185

The Cranbrook Map: Locating Meanings in Textile Art / Leena Svinhufvud Svinhufvud, Leena 199

Hybrids, Saints and Phallic Displays: Painted Bodies and Ecclesiastical Space in the Medieval Diocese of Turku / Katja Fält Fält, Katja 227

V Visible and Invisible Spaces

"Let Us Possesse One World": Spatial Images of Temporal and Celestial Love in John Donne's Poetry / Maria Salenius Salenius, Maria 251

The Disappearance of Gravity: Airy Spaces in Contemporary Art / Hanna Johansson Johansson, Hanna 273

Invisible Worlds and Imaginary Spaces of a Renaissance Magus / Lauri Ockenström Ockenström, Lauri 293.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 316-317), and index.

ISBN:

1443849561

9781443849562

OCLC:

856567148

Publisher Number:

99957795437