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

ISBN 10: 0415054990 / ISBN 13: 9780415054997

Published by Routledge, 1991

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Title: Writing Worlds: Discourse, Text and Metaphor...

Publisher: Routledge

Publication Date: 1991

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Like New

Book Type: book

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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.