Literature and Humanist Geography

Titolo: Literature and Humanist Geography

Autore: John Douglas Porteous

Lingua: inglese

Editore: The Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers)

Data di pubblicazione: 1985

Fonte: Area, Vol. 17, No. 2 (Jun., 1985), pp. 117-122

Sinossi:

Traditionally, geographers engaged in the interpretation of imaginative literature have been concerned largely with case studies of nineteenth-century novels of rural place. A more humanistic approach is suggested, with a home:away/insider:outsider matrix as a conceptual frame.

Pubblicazioni correlate: 

  • Aiken, Charles. Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County, Geographical Review 67, 1-21. Taylor & Francis Ltd, 1977
  • Darby, Henry Clifford. The regional geography of Thomas Hardy’s Wessex, Geographical Review 38, 426-43. Taylor & Francis, Ltd: 1948
  • Mills, William. Metaphorical vision: changes in Western attitudes to the environment, Annals, Association of American Geographers 72, 237-53. Taylor & Francis Ltd, 1982
  • Watson. James Wreford. Canadian regionalism in life and letters, GeographicalJournal 131, 21-33. Taylor & Francis, Ltd: 1965
  • Whitehand, Jeremy William Richard. Review of Harvey M E and Holly B P (eds) Themes in geographic thought, Geographical journal 148, 268-9.Taylor & Francis, Ltd: 1982

Pubblicazioni dello stesso autore:

  • Home: the territorial core, Geographical Review 66, 383-90. Taylor & Francis, Ltd: 1976
  • Environmental Aesthetics: Ideas, Politics and Planning. Routledge: 1996
  • Landscapes of the Mind: Worlds of Sense and Metaphor. University of Toronto Press: 1990

Porteous, John Douglas. Literature and Humanist Geography. The Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers): 1985