Title & Author:

Writing worlds : discourse, text, and metaphor in the representation of landscape / edited by Trevor J. Barnes and James S. Duncan.

Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1992.

Description:

xiii, 282 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 254-273) and index.
Introduction : writing worlds / Trevor J. Barnes and James S. Duncan -- Ideology and bliss : Roland Barthes and the secret histories of landscape / James S. Duncan and Nancy G. Duncan -- The implications of industry : Turner and Leeds / Stephen Daniels -- Reading the texts of Niagra Falls : the metaphor of death / Patrick McGreevy -- The slightly different thing that is said : writing the aesthetic experience / Jonathan Smith -- Lines of power / Gunnar Olsson -- The architectonic impulse and the reconceptualization of the concrete in contemporary geography / Michael R. Curry -- Reading the texts of theoretical economic geography : the role of physical and biological metaphors / Trevor J. Barnes -- Metaphor, geopolitical discourse and the military in South America / Leslie W. Hepple -- Foreign policy and the hyperreal : the Reagan administration and the scripting of 'South Africa' / Gearóid O' Tuathail -- Portland's comprehensive plan as text : the Fred Meyer case and the politics of reading / Judith Kenny -- Texts, hermeneutics and propaganda maps / John Pickles -- Deconstructing the map / J.B. Harley -- Afterword / James S. Duncan and Trevor J. Barnes.

Summary:

The purpose of this book is to explore issues of geographical description from a poststructuralist sensibility. Focusing on landscape representation, the authors organize their discussion of geographical writings around the three themes of discourse, text and metaphor.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents
French equivalent / Équivalent français
Publisher description

ISBN:

0415054990
9780415054997
0415069831 (pbk.)
9780415069830 (pbk.)
9780415513272
0415513278

Subject:

Geography Methodology.
Discourse analysis.
Deconstruction.
Géographie Méthodologie.
Analyse du discours.
Déconstruction.
Deconstructivist.
pragmatics.
Dekonstruktion
Diskursanalyse
Englisch
Fachliteratur
Geografie
Landschaft
Literatur
Aufsatzsammlung
Kongress
Landschappen.
Metaforen.
Paysage.
Paysage Dans la littérature.
Paysage Dans l'art.
Geography

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.
Kongreß Portland (Or.) 1987.

Added entries:

Barnes, Trevor J.
Duncan, James S.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 103381
Call No.: ID G70.W75; ID:94-B1771
Status: Available