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Symbolic Landscapes

Symbolic Landscapes presents a definitive collection of landscape/place studies that explores symbolic, cultural levels of geographical meanings. Essays written by philosophers, geographers, architects, social scientists, art historians, and literati, bring specific modes of expertise and perspectiv...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Backhaus, Gary (Editor ), Murungi, John (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2009.
Edición:1st ed. 2009.
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Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Places-Worlds
  • I The Problematic of Grounding the Significance of Symbolic Landscapes
  • The Road to Indian Wells: Symbolic Landscapes in the California Desert
  • Wilderness as Axis Mundi: Spiritual Journeys on the Appalachian Trail
  • Pu'u Kohola: Spatial Genealogy of a Hawaiian Symbolic Landscape
  • Mythological Landscape and Landscape of Myth: Circulating Visions of Pre-Christian Athos
  • At Home on the Midway: Carnival Conventions and Yard Space in Gibsonton, Florida
  • Crossing the Verge: Roadside Memorial-Perth, Western Australia
  • Life on "The Avenue": An Allegory of the Street in Early Twenty-First-Century Suburban America
  • Metaphor, Environmental Receptivity, and Architectural Design
  • Geographical Sensibilities in the Arts
  • II An Apology Concerning the Importance of the Geography of Imagination
  • Semblance of Sovereignty: Cartographic Possession in Map Cartouches and Atlas Frontispieces of Early Modern Europe
  • Symbolism and the Interaction of the Real and the Ideal: Scenery in Early-Modern Netherlandish Graphic Art
  • Traversing One's Space: Photography and the féminine
  • The Philadelphia Flower Show and Its Dangerous Sensibilities
  • Gardening at a Japanese Garden
  • Symbolic Space: Memory, Narrative, Writing
  • Vienna's Musical Deathscape
  • Crusoe's Island and the Human Estate: Defoe's Existential Geography.