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Imagined Landscapes : Geovisualizing Australian Spatial Narratives / Jane Stadler, Peta Mitchell, & Stephen Carleton.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stadler, Jane, author.
- Carleton, Stephen, 1968- author.
- Mitchell, Peta, author.
- Series:
- Spatial humanities (Indiana University Press)
- The spatial humanities
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Space and time in motion pictures.
- Space and time in literature.
- Landscapes in motion pictures.
- Motion pictures--Australia--History and criticism.
- Motion pictures.
- Landscapes in literature.
- Australian literature--History and criticism.
- Australian literature.
- Australia--In motion pictures.
- Australia.
- Australia--In literature.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (239 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2016]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Among the items discussed are Wake in Fright, a novel by Kenneth Cook, adapted iconically to the screen and recently onto the stage; the Australian North as a mythic space; spatial and temporal narrative shifts in retellings of the story of Alexander Pearce, a convict who gained notoriety for resorting to cannibalism after escaping from a remote Tasmanian penal colony; travel narratives and road movies set in Western Australia; and the challenges and spatial politics of mapping spaces for which there are no coordinates.
- Contents:
- Introduction : geocriticism's disciplinary boundaries
- Remediating space : adaptation and narrative geography
- Cultural topography and mythic space : Australia's North as gothic zone
- Spatial history : mapping narrative perceptions of place over time
- Mobility and travel narratives : geovisualizing the cultural politics of belonging to the land
- Terra incognita : mapping the uncertain and the unknown.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-216) index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780253018496
- 0253018498
- OCLC:
- 939262231
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