Writing Worlds by Trevor J. Barnes (9780415054997)

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Writing Worlds explores the issues of geographical description from a poststructuralist sensibility. Focusing on landscape representation, the authors organise 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 discourses of economics, geopolitics and urban planning, travellers' descriptions, propaganda maps, cartography and geometry, poetry and painting. Representation of the landscape - city, countryside or wilderness - is not mimetic; it is in fact a product of the nature of the discourse in which the text is written. Though the landscape representations explored by the authors vary considerably - travellers' accounts of Niagara Falls to Turner's 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.

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