Writing Worlds.Texts Discourse

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Routledge
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 1992
Edition: First Edition

Description: 282 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout. The only exception are a few light age markings to the page edges.

Publishers 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. Each theme is used as a potential entry point into understanding the shape and substance of particular kinds of geographical writings: the discourse of economics, geopolitics and urban planning, travellers descriptions, propaganda maps, cartography and geometry, poetry and painting. Representation of the landscape - city, countryside or wilderness - are not mimetic, rather they are a product of the nature of the discourse in which the text is written. Though the landscape representations explored by the authors varies considerably - travellers accounts of Niagara Falls to Turners painting of Leeds - each is a written world within a discrete discourse. These essays all participate in the ongoing project of deconstructing geographical discourse to explore the dynamics of power in the representation of landscape.

ISBN: 9780415069830