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WRITING WORLDS
DISCOURSE, TEXT AND METAPHOR IN THE REPRESENTATION OF LANDSCAPE |
By: |
Trevor J. Barnes (Editor), James S. Duncan (Editor) |
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Hardback |

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ISBN 10: |
0415054990 |
ISBN 13: |
9780415054997 |
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Publisher: |
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD |
Pub. date: |
5 December, 1991 |
Pages: |
300 |
Description: |
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. |
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. |
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illustrations, line drawings, figures and b&w photos |
Publication: |
UK |
Imprint: |
Routledge |
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