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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Malpas, Jeff, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Landscapes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 369 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2011

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This text provides an interdisciplinary perspectives on landscape, from the philosophical to the geographical, with an emphasis on the overarching concept of place.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Introduction; I Concepts of Landscape; 1 Place and the Problem of Landscape; 2 "Landscape" as a Kind of Place-Relation; 3 "Whitefellas Have to Learn about Country, It Is Not Just Land"; 4 Landscapes as Temporalspatial Phenomena; 5 The Edge(s) of Landscape; II Contexts for Landscape; 6 Geographic Landscapes and Natural Disaster; 7 The Political Meaning of Landscape; 8 Entry and Distance; 9 Reinterpreting the Picturesque in the Experience of Landscape; 10 Garden, City, or Wilderness?; III Studies in Landscape; 11 "All foreground without distance"

12 Landscapes of Class in Contemporary Chinese Film; 13 Searching for a Place in the World; 14 Framing the Landscape; 15 This Green Unpleasant Land; 16 The Lie of the Land; Bibliography; Contributors; Index

Notes:

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

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

0-262-29496-6

1-283-25860-9

9786613258601

0-262-29584-9

OCLC:

750174737