Process : landscape and text / editors, Catherine Brace, Adeline Johns-Putra.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brace, Catherine.

Johns-Putra, Adeline, 1973-

Series:

Spatial practices ; 10.

Spatial practices, 1871-689X ; 10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Landscapes.

Landscapes in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (362 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

While the relationship between place and creative effort has been the focus of pronounced new interest in various disciplines, the contours and co-ordinates of the process by which one informs the other, by which landscape shapes text and vice versa, have yet to be delineated in any systematic fashion. This volume sheds light on that process, investigating the ways in which it is both reciprocal and interstitial: how does text shape our perception of landscape as much as it is shaped by it, and how do we account for the points at which text and landscape intersect? The first part of the volume introduces us to the question of process in landscape and literary studies; the second part examines the moments within the process by which landscape and text come to bear upon each other; and the final part deals with the relationship between the material experience of landscape and the formal characteristics of a given text, using this to reflect back on the processes of landscape perception and creativity. This volume spans the disciplines of geography, literary studies, and the visual arts. It also brings together scholarly and creative perspectives, interspersing academic commentary with poetic-photographic essays.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Foreword / Stephen Daniels

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

Introduction / Catherine Brace and Adeline Johns-Putra

The Importance of Process / Catherine Brace and Adeline Johns-Putra

Writing through Landscape / John Wylie

Environmental Fiction and Narrative Openness / Richard Kerridge

The Spiritual Geography of Edward Thomas / Roger Ebbatson

42.30 N / Frank Gohlke and Herbert Gottfried

Writing the Moment: Landscape and the Memory-Image / Jacob Bull and Michael Leyshon

Essaying Place: Landscape, Music, and Memory (after Janet Wolff) / Iain Biggs

The Forest for the Trees: Fieldbooks as Sites of Change: Reading and Writing 'Cities in the 21st Century' / Joni M Palmer

Epistolary Sketches: Landscapes in a Few Letters by Wordsworth, Shelley and Keats / Sylvie Crinquand

Dirty Words / Jolie B. Kaytes

La Cloche, Northeastern Ontario: Liminal Passages / Sophie Anne Edwards

Writing England, Finding the Self: Jonathan Raban and the Travelogue as Identity Tool / Christine Berberich

Geography as Intertext: Toward a Non-representational Reading of Thomas Wharton's Novel Icefields / Pamela Banting

She Do the River in Different Voices: Lyric Democracies in Alice Oswald's Dart / Kym Martindale

Landscape, Metaphor and Biology: Rethinking Women and Nature / Sherry Booth

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

90-420-3076-3

OCLC:

670411586

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789042030763 DOI