Imagining spaces and places
Imagining Spaces and Places seeks to produce an interdisciplinary dialogue between art history and literature studies and other fields of cultural analysis that work with the concepts of space, place and various ""scapes"", such as cityscapes, bodyscapes, mindscapes and memoryscapes, as well as the more familiar landscapes. The volume was inspired by new lines of study that underline the experiential and multidimensional aspects of spaces. We explore how art, literature or urban spaces forge ""…
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- Full title :Imagining spaces and places / edited by Saija Isomaa [and others].
Summary
Imagining Spaces and Places seeks to produce an interdisciplinary dialogue between art history and literature studies and other fields of cultural analysis that work with the concepts of space, place and various ""scapes"", such as cityscapes, bodyscapes, mindscapes and memoryscapes, as well as the more familiar landscapes. The volume was inspired by new lines of study that underline the experiential and multidimensional aspects of spaces. We explore how art, literature or urban spaces forge "" ...
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- Publication Date:2013.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Cambridge Scholars Press
- Place of Publication:Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2013.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xx, 326 pages) : : illustrations (some color)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781443864138, 1443864137, 130699215X, 9781306992152, 1443849561, 9781443849562
- oclc:ocn884725986
- LC Classification:N6497
- Dewey Decimal:809.0351
Table of Contents
Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Plate Images; List of Tables; Introduction; I Remembered and Sensed Spaces; Memory and Place from the Red Centerof Australia to the Periphery of Paris; Multisensory Memories and the Spacesof Suburban Childhood in the GreaterHelsinki Region in the 1950s and 1960s; II Urban Spaces; Urban Imagery between Enchantmentand Disenchantment; How Cultural? How Material? Rereadingthe Slums of Early Vict orian London; Making and Taming "Messy Space"; III National Spaces; Cabins and National Identityin Norwegian Literature; Construct ions of Space.
"There In Thousands Of LakesThe Stars Of The Night Glimmer"IV Locations; Sites of Slavery; The Cranbrook Map; Hybrids, Saints and Phallic Displays; V Visible and Invisible Spaces; "Let Us Possesse One World"; The Disapp earance of Gravity; Invisible Worlds and Imaginary Spacesof a Renaissance Magus; Contributors; Index.
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