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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456894203321

Titolo

The place of landscape [[electronic resource] ] : concepts, contexts, studies / / edited by Jeff Malpas

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2011

ISBN

0-262-29496-6

1-283-25860-9

9786613258601

0-262-29584-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (384 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

MalpasJeff

Disciplina

700/.46

Soggetti

Landscapes

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-345) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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 Film13 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

Sommario/riassunto

This text provides an interdisciplinary perspectives on landscape, from the philosophical to the geographical, with an emphasis on the overarching concept of place.