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Mapping the invisible landscape : folklore, writing, and the sense of place / by Kent C. Ryden ; foreword by Wayne Franklin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ryden, Kent C., 1959- author.
- Series:
- American land and life series.
- The American land and life series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American essays--History and criticism.
- Folklore--Idaho--Coeur d'Alene Region.
- Landscape assessment--United States.
- Landscape assessment--History and criticism--United States.
- Landscape assessment.
- Geographical perception--United States.
- Geographical perception.
- Folklore--United States.
- Folklore.
- American essays.
- Folklore--Idaho--Coeur d'Alene.
- Local Subjects:
- American essays--History and criticism.
- Folklore--Idaho--Coeur d'Alene Region.
- Landscape assessment--United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvi, 326 pages) : illustrations, maps.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [1993]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Any landscape has an unseen component: a subjective component of experience, memory, and narrative which people familiar with the place understand to be an integral part of its geography but which outsiders may not suspect the existence of-unless they listen and read carefully. This invisible landscape is make visible though stories, and these stories are the focus of this engrossing book.Traveling across the invisible landscape in which we imaginatively dwell, Kent Ryden-himself a most careful listener and reader-asks the following questions. What categories of meaning
- Contents:
- Contents; Foreword; Preface; Prologue: Reading the Border; 1. Of Maps and Minds: The Invisible Landscape; 2. Folklore and the Sense of Place; 3. The Folklore of Place: The Coeur d'Alene Mining District, North Idaho; 4. A Walk in the Invisible Landscape: The Essay of Place; 5. The Essay of Place: Themes in the Cartography of the Invisible Landscape; Epilogue: Feeling Every Bump in the Ground; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 9781587292088
- 1587292084
- OCLC:
- 44965457
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