Writing Worlds: Discourse, Text and Metaphor in the Representation of Landscape

Barnes, Trevor J. and Duncan, James S. (edited by)

ISBN 10: 0415069831 / ISBN 13: 9780415069830

Published by Routledge, London and New York, 1992

About this Item

235 x 155 mm. xiv, 282 pp. Pictorial card covers. Spine not creased. B&w illustrations in the text. Includes list of contributors, bibliography and index.

Seller Inventory # 62010

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Writing Worlds: Discourse, Text and Metaphor in the Representation of Landscape
• Publisher: Routledge, London and New York
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415069831
• ISBN 13: 9780415069830
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Politics, Philosophy, Economics

About this title

Synopsis

Writing Worlds represents the first systematic attempt to apply poststructuralist ideas to landscape representation. Landscape - city, countryside and wilderness - is explored through the discourse of economics, geopolitics and urban planning, travellers descriptions, propaganda maps, cartography and geometry, poetry and painting. The book aims to deconstruct geographical representation in order to explore the dynamics of power in the way we see the world.

About the Author

Trevor J. Barnes is Professor of Geography at the University of British Columbia. James S. Duncan is Professor of Geography at Syracuse University.