Reflective landscapes of the Anglophone countries / edited by Pascale Guibert.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Guibert, Pascale.

Series:

Spatial Practices 11.

Spatial practices ; 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cultural landscapes--English-speaking countries.

Cultural landscapes.

English-speaking countries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (294 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Too many landscapes have been reduced to silent commodities by being put into golden frames on top of our fireplaces. Too many landscapes have been reified by being considered as objects holding forth referents to an omnipotent looker-on, with his/her language ever ready to seize and transcribe. The articles gathered here, prolonging an international conference held at the University of Caen Basse-Normandie (France), 14-16 June 2007, set the landscapes loose again by engaging with their essentially relational quality. What makes this volume particularly stimulating and critically innovative is this initial acknowledgement of a landscape’s reflectiveness – that is the fact that it contains unthought thought, and thus presents itself to us both passively and actively. This straightaway appraisal of the lines of flight in the seemingly static, tranquil images facing us, has opened the way to deeply critical readings bent on questioning old tracks, testing new itineraries, denying the closure of the subject. At the same time, and by way of consequence, it leads us to encounter the force in landscape. A force like an energy, an impetus, which makes it possible – if not advisable! – to still compose, read and enjoy landscapes in the XXIst century.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

Introduction / Pascale Guibert

From Interiority to Landscapes and Seascapes: The Metaphors of Reflection in Locke’s: Essay Concerning Human Understanding / Matthieu Haumesser

“Reflections on Reflections”: Wordsworth’s Narcissistic Landscapes / Aurélie Thiria-Meulemans

“So the Horizon Line Vanishes”: Landscape and Abstraction in England from the 1930's to the 1950's / Sophie Aymes

Out of the Garrison and Beyond: The Rewriting of the Landscape Tradition in Contemporary Canadian Fiction / Claire Omhovère

One Land, Three Landscapes: Frank Gillen’s Alice Springs / Timothy Mason

Taking the High Road: The Form, Perception and Memory of Loch Lomond / Allan Ingram

Digging into the West: Tim Robinson’s Deep Landscapes / Eamonn Wall

The Wilderness as Symbolic Form – Thoreau, Grünewald and the Group of Seven / Jonathan Bordo

Landscape as Reflection in British Contemporary Art / Marjorie Vanbaelinghem

Early Wordsworth: Towards the Limits of the Picturesque / Laurent Folliot

Locations of Memory: A Psycho-Spatial Reading of Traumatic Landscape in Owen Sheers’ “Mametz Wood” / Robert Burden

Negotiating Colonial Contradiction: E. M. Forster’s and V. S. Naipaul’s Negative Landscapes / Catherine Lanone

The Desert Landscape: A Sunlit Landscape Amid the Night of Nonbeing / David Jasper

Page-Landscapes in the Theater of Gertrude Stein / Isabelle Alfandary

Encountering the Unmappable: The Landscape in Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad) / Richard Pedot

“Entering the Edges”: Visual and Verbal Landscapes in Robert Creeley’s Collaborations / Barbara Montefalcone

Index / Pascale Guibert.

Notes:

Articles from an international conference held at the University of Caen Basse-Normandie, France, 14-16 June 2007.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-99173-6

9786612991738

90-420-3262-6

OCLC:

705001534