The Place of Landscape : Concepts, Contexts, Studies.
Malpas, Jeff.
The Place of Landscape : Concepts, Contexts, Studies. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (384 pages) - The MIT Press Series . - The MIT Press Series .
Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- I Concepts of Landscape -- 1 Place and the Problem of Landscape -- 2 "Landscape" as a Kind of Place-Relation -- 3 "Whitefellas Have to Learn about Country, It Is Not Just Land" -- 4 Landscapes as Temporalspatial Phenomena -- 5 The Edge(s) of Landscape -- II Contexts for Landscape -- 6 Geographic Landscapes and Natural Disaster -- 7 The Political Meaning of Landscape -- 8 Entry and Distance -- 9 Reinterpreting the Picturesque in the Experience of Landscape -- 10 Garden, City, or Wilderness? -- III Studies in Landscape -- 11 "All foreground without distance" -- 12 Landscapes of Class in Contemporary Chinese Film -- 13 Searching for a Place in the World -- 14 Framing the Landscape -- 15 This Green Unpleasant Land -- 16 The Lie of the Land -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.
Interdisciplinary perspectives on landscape, from the philosophical to the geographical, with an emphasis on the overarching concept of place.
9780262295840
Landscapes.
Electronic books.
BH301.L3 -- P48 2011eb
700.46
The Place of Landscape : Concepts, Contexts, Studies. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (384 pages) - The MIT Press Series . - The MIT Press Series .
Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- I Concepts of Landscape -- 1 Place and the Problem of Landscape -- 2 "Landscape" as a Kind of Place-Relation -- 3 "Whitefellas Have to Learn about Country, It Is Not Just Land" -- 4 Landscapes as Temporalspatial Phenomena -- 5 The Edge(s) of Landscape -- II Contexts for Landscape -- 6 Geographic Landscapes and Natural Disaster -- 7 The Political Meaning of Landscape -- 8 Entry and Distance -- 9 Reinterpreting the Picturesque in the Experience of Landscape -- 10 Garden, City, or Wilderness? -- III Studies in Landscape -- 11 "All foreground without distance" -- 12 Landscapes of Class in Contemporary Chinese Film -- 13 Searching for a Place in the World -- 14 Framing the Landscape -- 15 This Green Unpleasant Land -- 16 The Lie of the Land -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.
Interdisciplinary perspectives on landscape, from the philosophical to the geographical, with an emphasis on the overarching concept of place.
9780262295840
Landscapes.
Electronic books.
BH301.L3 -- P48 2011eb
700.46