02488oam 2200481 450 991081138510332120230629234232.090-04-43800-910.1163/9789004438002(CKB)4100000011352882(MiAaPQ)EBC6419883(OCoLC)1182020052(nllekb)BRILL9789004438002(EXLCZ)99410000001135288220210531d2021 uy 0engurun| uuuuatxtrdacontentcrdamediardacarrierSite-seeing aesthetics california sojourns in five installations /Lene M. JohannessenLeiden, The Netherlands :BRILL,[2021]©20211 online resourceSpatial Practices ;34Includes index.90-04-43799-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.Sojourn aesthetics : literary chorography -- The time of loss : Chavez Ravine : sonic excavations -- The time of ghosts : Chinese camp : Staging Chinese Camp -- The time of hope : letters from a 49er everyman : "will be home as soon as I can" -- The time of desire : the Winchester House : "this little world" -- The time of romance : Fort Ross : the "eventmentality" of Fort Ross -- Interrupted : nostalgia and time out of time -- Conclusion : tangled figurations : entangled figurations as site-specific history."This binary also speaks more generally to how we tend to conceive of the relation between place and space: As many scholars have pointed out, place often comes valued as "the sphere of the everyday, or real and valued practices," or "a locus of denial" trailing ideas of the "closed, coherent, integrated as authentic, as 'home', a secure retreat" (Massey 2005, 5-6). Doreen Massey's descriptions speak to our perceptions of a center, of a core toward which energy flows, and in so doing marking, in Michel de Certeau's words, "an instantaneous configuration of positions"--Provided by publisher.Spatial Practices ;34.Space and timeCaliforniaHistorical geographySpace and time.304.2309794Johannessen Lene1127331MiAaPQMiAaPQUtOrBLWBOOK9910811385103321Site-seeing aesthetics3938144UNINA