Landscape and EnglishnessRobert Burden, Stephan Kohl Rodopi, 2006 - 266 pagina's In the papers collected in this, the first volume of the Spatial Practices series, Englishness is reflected in the spaces it occupies or dwells in. Broadly influenced by a renewed and growing interest in questions of cultural identity, its emergence in Victorian theories and fictions of nationality, and the new cultural geography, the papers cover a rich variety of spaces and places which have been appropriated for cultural meanings: the rural countryside and farmland of the Home Counties in the early nineteenth century as Arcadian idyll in Cobbett, as the land to die for in war propaganda, and as nostalgia for a unified, organic English culture in Lawrence, Morton and Priestley's travel writing, but also in the Shell Tourist Guides to motoring in rural England; English moorland; the sacred geographies of monuments in Hardy and others; the traditional seaside deconstructed in Martin Parr's photography, and the sea as English Victorian imperial territory and its symbolic breezes in Froude's travel writing. The English landscape is also a paradigm for the description of other places in D. H. Lawrence's travel writing or for the colonial territory itself in Rushdie's writing India, a displacement of other landscapes. This collection of papers examines the assumption that constructions of rural England provide the basis for an understanding of Englishness. |
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Pagina 18
... metaphors – “has rendered untenable the kind of simple distinction Williams was able to make between the 'real histories' of social rela- tions on the land, and mere ideologies on the other” (MacLean 1999: 2). Conceptions of socially ...
... metaphors – “has rendered untenable the kind of simple distinction Williams was able to make between the 'real histories' of social rela- tions on the land, and mere ideologies on the other” (MacLean 1999: 2). Conceptions of socially ...
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... metaphors and material space interact in power relations ( as opposed to Lefebvre's over - insistence on rela- tions of production ) . Examples range from heterotopias like the ceme- tery to the design of the Benthamite prison with its ...
... metaphors and material space interact in power relations ( as opposed to Lefebvre's over - insistence on rela- tions of production ) . Examples range from heterotopias like the ceme- tery to the design of the Benthamite prison with its ...
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... metaphor' – bus or a train. Stories could also take this noble name: every day, they traverse and organise places; they select and link them together; they make sentences and itineraries out of them. They are spatial trajecto- ries. In ...
... metaphor' – bus or a train. Stories could also take this noble name: every day, they traverse and organise places; they select and link them together; they make sentences and itineraries out of them. They are spatial trajecto- ries. In ...
Pagina 30
... metaphor to “ grave distaste ” . The signpost itself crucially fails to fulfill its deictic function , merely “ pointing this way , pointing that ” . Its writing has been “ defaced ” and erased by the elements , a symbol perhaps of ...
... metaphor to “ grave distaste ” . The signpost itself crucially fails to fulfill its deictic function , merely “ pointing this way , pointing that ” . Its writing has been “ defaced ” and erased by the elements , a symbol perhaps of ...
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... metaphor in Renton's poetry, for example the foal who is “beaten by half a head” as it tries to stand, nudged by the mare; 'The Foal' (1876: l.6). I am thinking in the first instance of the Women and Geography Study Group and their ...
... metaphor in Renton's poetry, for example the foal who is “beaten by half a head” as it tries to stand, nudged by the mare; 'The Foal' (1876: l.6). I am thinking in the first instance of the Women and Geography Study Group and their ...
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The Tourist Construction of Agriculture and Landscape in William Cobbetts Rural Rides 1830 | 71 |
Character Identity and Nationality in the English Novel | 89 |
Froudes Oceana and the Writing of the Sea | 103 |
Stonehenge Englishness English Fiction | 123 |
Cultural Difference and the Critique of Modernity in D H Lawrences Twilight in Italy 1916 and Other Travel Writing | 137 |
Travelogue and Nation Between the Wars | 165 |
An Invention of the Motor Industries? | 185 |
Cultural Constructions of Englishness | 207 |
Martin Parrs Photographic DeConstructions of Englishness | 225 |
Fictions Alternative Histories | 243 |
Index | 261 |
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