Landscapes Of Desire

Author : William Alexander McClung
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520234650
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Landscapes of Desire written by William Alexander McClung and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002-05-31 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An imaginative and provocative interpretation of the meaning of Los Angeles, carefully thought out and beautifully written."—Robert Winter, editor of Toward a Simpler Way of Life: The Arts and Crafts Architects of California "McClung's sharp eye, and his ability to be both critic and analyst, combine to make this a book of real timeliness. It is unusual, and it is smart."—William Deverell, author of Railroad Crossing: Californians and the Railroad, 1850-1910

Author : Francesca Southerden
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199698457
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Landscapes of Desire in the Poetry of Vittorio Sereni written by Francesca Southerden and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-12 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book-length study in English on Vittorio Sereni (1913-83), a major figure in Italian 20th-century poetry. It argues that a key innovation of Sereni's poetry is the way in which it reworks the boundaries of poetic space to construct a lyric 'I' radically repositioned in the textual universe with respect to its predecessors.

Author : Greg Gordon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Landscape Of Desire written by Greg Gordon and published by . This book was released on 2003-04 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each chapter focuses on a geological formation the group descends through, but plant and animal life, ecology, human impacts, and the students' experience and learning are all tightly woven into Gordon's reflections and storytelling, which create a powerful documentation and celebration of place and the evolutions that occur when human beings connect intimately to their surroundings."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Kevin O. Browne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Landscapes of Desire and Violence written by Kevin O. Browne and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Krista Comer
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 9780807848135
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Landscapes of the New West written by Krista Comer and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 1970s, empowered by the civil rights and women's movements, a new group of women writers began speaking to the American public. Their topic, broadly defined, was the postmodern American West. By the mid-1980s, their combined works made for a bona fide literary groundswell in both critical and commercial terms. However, as Krista Comer notes, despite the attentions of publishers, the media, and millions of readers, literary scholars have rarely addressed this movement or its writers. Too many critics, Comer argues, still enamored of western images that are both masculine and antimodern, have been slow to reckon with the emergence of a new, far more "feminine," postmodern, multiracial, and urban west. Here, she calls for a redesign of the field of western cultural studies, one that engages issues of gender and race and is more self-conscious about space itself_especially that cherished symbol of western "authenticity," open landscape. Surveying works by Joan Didion, Wanda Coleman, Maxine Hong Kingston, Leslie Marmon Silko, Barbara Kingsolver, Pam Houston, Louise Erdrich, Sandra Cisneros, and Mary Clearman Blew, Comer shows how these and other contemporary women writers have mapped new geographical imaginations upon the cultural and social spaces of today's American West.

Author : Hilary P.M. Winchester
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317888537
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Landscapes written by Hilary P.M. Winchester and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-29 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Landscapes is a timely and well-written analysis of the meaning of cultural landscapes. The book delves into the layers of meaning that are invested in ordinary landscapes as well as landscapes of spectacle and power. Landscapes is a powerful and vivid application of the new cultural geography to case studies not previously visited within cultural geography texts.

Author : Gillian R. Overing
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816623754
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Landscape of Desire written by Gillian R. Overing and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'An extraordinary rich study of the power of place in the Northern medieval world by two medievalists, who are also 'compleat geographers' in that they do fieldwork that is always informed by theory and they demonstrate exceptional sensitivity to place's double nature-compelling presence and elusiveness to interpretation.' Yi-Fu Tuan, Department of Geography University of Wisconsin at Madison

Author : Sandra Bartoli
Publisher : Park Publishing (WI)
ISBN 13 : 9783038600336
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tiergarten, Landscape of Transgression written by Sandra Bartoli and published by Park Publishing (WI). This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tiergarten is Berlin's oldest park, with more than five hundred acres of woodland in the heart of the city. Before it was absorbed by the city, the area that became Tiergarten was a naturally occurring forest. Throughout its history, it was used as royal hunting grounds and as a landscaped public park, and--in the years of hardship following World War II-- an area where trees were felled for firewood, before changing social and political circumstances and the growing ecological movement led to measures to restore and replant the vast public space. Thus, Tiergarten has become not only a very popular place of recreation but as well a biotope of extraordinarily high biodiversity. Generously illustrated with historical and contemporary photographs, Tiergarten, Landscape of Transgression takes readers through the history of the park, with an eye toward exploring it as a radical spatial expression--a space where humans and other species and conflicting histories coexist in close proximity, and a model for future environments in areas of intense urbanization. Born of a recent symposium staged by the Technische Universit t Berlin, the book brings together twelve essays with a range of archival documents, including newspaper articles, maps, reports, plans, and photographs.

Author : Avril Horner
Publisher : Harvester/Wheatsheaf
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Landscapes of Desire written by Avril Horner and published by Harvester/Wheatsheaf. This book was released on 1990 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Feodor Pitcairn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780578613857
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Primordial Landscapes written by Feodor Pitcairn and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Primordial Landscapes:Iceland Revealed elegantly explores the diverse and raw beauty of Iceland's extraordinary landscapes through striking images by photographer and naturalist Feodor Pitcairn and the inspired words of geophysicist, author and poet Ari Trausti Gudmundsson.This collection illuminates topographical phenomenon shaped and crafted by the most powerful natural forces on earth: rain and glacier melt from thunderous waterfalls and rivers that carve at the earth's surface; arctic snow and ice peppering teh land and sea with striking shapes and patterns, feeding the climate and water cycles; lava flows from active volcanos, that build vast textured landforms where life can begin and take hold. These are the beautiful and extraordinary results of our planet's most fundamental geological processes.