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Cawood, Megan. "Invisible landscapes : landscape, memory and time in W.G. Sebald's Austerlitz." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/7464.
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Includes bibliographical references (leaves 82-84).The eponymous protagonist of Austerlitz, W.G. Sebald's final prose novel, is haunted by landscapes of loss. Both Austerlitz and the narrator are acutely aware of the signs of destruction and of the invisible histories of loss in the landscapes through which they travel. Through the gaze of both these characters Sebald exposes the haunted wasteland of post -war Europe and describes the sites of many of the atrocities of the Holocaust. While much has been written about Sebald's use of landscape and his emphasis on memory, there is very little research to date that has taken a phenomenological approach to Sebald's texts. There are specific affinities, for example, between the musings of the protagonist and the narrator of Sebald's Austerlitz and Merleau-Ponty's philosophy of perception. This dissertation explores the implications of Merleau-Ponty's existential phenomenology as an approach to Sebald's Austerlitz, by showing that while phenomenology provides a valuable conceptual framework through which to engage the novel, there are aspects of this phenomenological approach which Sebald's work, in its narrative form, is able to extend beyond the boundaries of philosophical discourse. The central argument is that Austerlitz's perception of architectural sites is inextricably linked to aspects of memory and narrative. This dissertation first explores the thematic concerns of the outworking of traumatic memory in the spaces of architecture, in the subjective experience of time, and in the act of perception; after which it examines how Sebald's narrative technique creates a text-scape which implicates its reader's gaze.
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Hargrave, Lawrence Wayne. "Landscape and Literature: Louis L'Amour's Four Corners." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2003. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?miami1052943382.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Miami University, Dept. of Geography, 2003.Title from first page of PDF document. Document formatted into pages; contains v, 58 p. : ill., maps. Includes bibliographical references (p. 50-54).
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O'Dell, Emily Jane. "Excavating the emotional landscape of ancient Egyptian literature." View abstract/electronic edition; access limited to Brown University users, 2008. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3318347.
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Griffith, Gareth William. "Rhetorical functions of landscape in early Middle English literature." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1983/49aeb511-c89a-4f52-b241-80415ba5c152.
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This thesis explores the ways in which landscape is used, in texts from the English Middle Ages, in order to guide the response of the audience. It begins with an examination of the ways in which landscape was viewed more widely in the medieval period, especially the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, tracing literary theories derived from study of the Bible and arguing that these theories were likely to have been carried across into reading secular texts. I also examine some of the Biblical and classical archetypes that shaped literary understanding of particular landscape features.
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O'Connell, Nicholas. "On sacred ground : the landscape literature of the Pacific Northwest /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9398.
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Malik, Farhana. "Women and landscape in Willa Cather's writings." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.299783.
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Pountney, Robert. "Thomas Hardy's creative use of the landscape." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.265585.
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Graves, Jesse. "Tennessee Landscape with Blighted Pine: Poems." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2011. http://a.co/j0m87CX.
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Jesse Graves was born and raised in Sharps Chapel, Tennessee, where his ancestors settled in the 1780s. His poems and essays have appeared in Prairie Schooner, Southern Quarterly, Connecticut Review, and other journals, anthologies, and collections. He teaches at East Tennessee State University, where he is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Literature and Language. "I admire the assurance, the formal authority of Graves’ craft."—Robert Morganhttps://dc.etsu.edu/etsu_books/1096/thumbnail.jpg
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Garner-Jones, Susan Patricia. "Paradise imperilled : responses to the landscape in English literature (1880-1920)." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.364180.
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Rapson, Jessica. "Topographies of suffering : encountering the Holocaust in landscape, literature and memory." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2012. http://research.gold.ac.uk/8025/.
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As the Holocaust passes out of living memory, this thesis re-evaluates the potential of commemorative landscapes to engender meaningful and textualised encounters with a past which, all too often, seems distant and untouchable. As the concentration camps and mass graves that shape our experiential access to this past are integrated into tourist itineraries, associated discourse is increasingly delimited by a pervasive sense of memorial fatigue which is itself compounded by the notion that the experiences of the Holocaust are beyond representation; that they deny, evade or transcend communication and comprehension. Harnessing recent developments across memory studies, cultural geography and ecocritical literary theory, this thesis contends that memory is always in production and never produced; always a journey and never a destination. In refusing the notion of an ineffable past, I turn to the texts and topographies that structure contemporary encounters with the Holocaust and consider their potential to create an ethically grounded and reflexive past-present engagement. Topographies of Suffering explores three case studies: the Buchenwald Concentration Camp Memorial, Weimar, Germany; the mass grave at Babi Yar, Kiev, Ukraine; and the razed village of Lidice, Czech Republic. These landscapes are revealed as evolving palimpsests; multi-layered, multi-dimensional and texturised spaces always subject to ongoing processes of mediation and remediation. I examine memory’s locatedness in landscape alongside the ways it may travel according to diverse literary and spatial de-territorializations. The thesis overall brings three disparate sites together as places in which the past can be encounterable, immersive and affective. In doing so, it looks to a future in which the others of the past can be faced, and in which the alibi of ineffability can be consigned to history
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Westron, Loree L. "Legacy : landscape and authenticity in the literature of the American West." Thesis, University of Chichester, 2013. http://eprints.chi.ac.uk/784/.
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Khumalo, Sydney Kuwali. "Mapping the landscape of sustainability in ICT4D : a systematic literature review." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/79258.
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The concept of sustainability in Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D) has been largely associated with the sustainability of ICT4D projects. In other words, most ICT4D literature consider the “continuous operation of ICT4D projects” as the sustainability of ICT4D. This implies that the failure of these ICT4D projects threatens or compromises the existence of sustainability in ICT4D (Heeks, 2002). In this study we do not argue that this view is false; however, sustainability in ICT4D should be considered from a broader perspective, and should not be limited to the uninterrupted operational success of ICT4D projects.
Sustainability in ICT4D has proven a challenge to put into practice. This is as a result of a number of known and unknown elements that should be independently and sometimes collectively considered in the implementation of ICT4D, to enable sustainability and sustained benefit realisation. Therefore, this study undertakes a systematic literature review that aims to identify and understand aspects that could enable or disable sustainability in ICT4D within the context of developing communities. Furthermore, based on the analysis and findings from the systematic review of selected ICT4D articles, sourced from various academic journals and conference proceedings, the researcher proposes a framework that seeks to illustrate the building blocks of sustainability in ICT4D. The proposed framework emphasises critical elements that require consideration in ICT4D implementations, so as to enable the realisation of sustained socio-economic benefit for local livelihoods.Dissertation (MIT)--University of Pretoria, 2019.
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Ingham, Zita. "Reading and writing a landscape: A rhetoric of southwest desert literature." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/185434.
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Using a transactional model of reading and writing, the dissertation discusses rhetorical aspects of the experience and representation of the American desert. The dissertations extends recent nonfiction scholarship that claims nature writing as literature by focusing on seven major nonfiction works: Some Strange Corners of Our Country (1891), by Charles F. Lummis; The Desert (1901), by John C. Van Dyke; The Land of Little Rain (1903), by Mary Austin; The Desert Year (1952), by Joseph Wood Krutch; Desert Solitaire (1968), by Edward Abbey; Desert Notes (1976), by Barry Lopez; and Secrets from the Center of the World (1990), by Joy Harjo and Stephen Strom. The Desert, by John C. Van Dyke, is treated in depth, in terms of its use of aesthetic experience to argue for conservation and for a particular philosophy of nature. Van Dyke's establishes his rhetorical stance (including the creation of the narrator and appeals he makes to particular audiences) and initiates his aesthetic and scientific delineation of the subject in the preface to the book, which is studied in detail.
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Hecht, Roger William. "Nature's 'cunning alphabet': Pastoral landscape and politics in nineteenth-century American literature." Related electronic resource: Current Research at SU : database of SU dissertations, recent titles available full text, 2002. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/syr/main.
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Neto, José Elias Pinheiro. "Tessituras da paisagem cultural às margens do rio Capibaribe e no Recife sob a luz da poética de João Cabral de Melo Neto." Universidade de São Paulo, 2017. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8136/tde-02062017-101821/.
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Esta tese tem como intuito interpelar a abordagem literária como objeto de investigação, revelando, pelo olhar geográfico, aspectos sociais e culturais contrapostos pela categoria paisagem a partir do estudo da obra de João Cabral de Melo Neto. O objetivo é, pelo estabelecimento de um diálogo entre Geografia e Literatura no sentido de articular as reflexões cognoscíveis representativas da realidade por meio da tênue linha separativa entre a ficção e o real, perceber as paisagens geográficas pelas tessituras textuais da poética de João Cabral de Melo Neto descritas ao longo do rio Capibaribe e na cidade do Recife. Para tanto, necessário se faz a apresentação de elementos formalizadores pela mostra da abordagem de interpretação literária por meio de investigação. Esta pode revelar ao pesquisador aspectos sociais, econômicos, culturais, históricos e físicos do objeto de investigação e ele o faz com o intuito em contrapor a paisagem real e/ou ficcional. Toda narrativa é uma paisagem e a paisagem narra, neste sentido, analisando as paisagens pela Literatura é possível explorar diversas possibilidades de estudo nos meandros da interdisciplinaridade. Esta análise interdisciplinar é possível porque traça as (dis)similitudes reveladas entre as paisagens percebidas pelos leitores e a carga subjetiva circundada nas cenas miméticas de realidades descritas nos textos literários. O procedimento metodológico está proposto a partir de uma análise da perspectiva da crítica literária como direcionamento contextual para a produção do conhecimento, este recurso faculta ao pesquisador diversas possibilidades para apresentar uma solução a um determinado problema. A busca parte das leituras da poética com enfoques para um diálogo entre a Geografia e a Literatura. Especialmente, estudando a categoria paisagem como formadora da construção do imaginário das cenas cabralinas do Recife e às margens do rio Capibaribe. A escrita lança um olhar geográfico ao conteúdo ficcional literário, este arcabouço poético pode, também como fonte histórica, oferecer experiência, aproximando-nos da realidade e conduzindo-nos a flagrantes das relações nas tramas que nos dão sustentação para lermos e percebermos a paisagem, seja ela real ou ficcional. As descrições do poeta deixam impressas marcas que evidenciam cenas de questões sociais e ambientais, que podem ser percebidas nos poemas Morte e vida severina, O rio: ou a relação da viagem que faz o Capibaribe de sua nascente à cidade do Recife e O cão sem plumas, indicando ao pesquisador novos olhares para observar o mundo. É neste sentido que este trabalho traça um percurso teórico sobre a paisagem para desvelar as percepções das relações descritas nos poemas cabralinos. Assim, as pesquisas que estabelecem o diálogo entre a Geografia e a Literatura contribuem para a compreensão das dinâmicas espaciais.This thesis aims at the interpellation of the literary approach as an object of investigation, revealing, through the geographic view, social and cultural aspects contrasted by the landscape category. The objective is, establishing a dialogue between Geography and Literature in order to articulate the knowable reflections representative of reality through the tenuous line separating between fiction and the real, to perceive the geographical landscapes by the textual fabric of the poetics of João Cabral de Melo Neto described along the Capibaribe River and in the city of Recife. For that, it is necessary to present formalizing elements by showing the approach of literary interpretation through of research. It can reveal to the researcher the social, economic, cultural, historical and physical aspects of the research object and he does so in order to counteract the real and/or fictional landscape. Every narrative is a landscape and the landscape narrates, in this sense, analyzing the landscapes through Literature, it is possible to explore various possibilities of study in the meanders of interdisciplinarity. This interdisciplinary analysis is possible because it traces the (dis)similarities revealed between the landscapes perceived by the readers and the subjective load surrounded in the mimetic scenes of realities described in the literary texts. The methodological procedure is proposed from an analysis of the perspective of literary criticism as contextual aim for the production of knowledge, this resource gives the researcher several possibilities to present a solution to a given problem. The search starts from the poetics readings with approaches to a dialogue between Geography and literature. Especially, studying the landscape category as a way of constructing the imagery of the cabralina scenes of Recife and the banks of the Capibaribe River. The writing casts a fictional literary content, this poetic framework can, also as a historical source, offer experience, approaching reality and leading us to flagrant relationships in the plots that give us support to read and perceive the landscape, whether real or fictional. The poet\'s descriptions leave imprinted marks that show scenes of social and environmental issues, they can be seen in the poems Morte e vida severina, O rio: ou a relação da viagem que faz o Capibaribe de sua nascente à cidade do Recife and O Cão sem plumas, indicating to the researcher new looks to observe the world. In this sense, it is that this paper traces a theoretical course on the landscape to unveil the perceptions of the relations described in the cabralinos poems. Thus, the researches that establish the dialogue between Geography and Literature contribute to the understanding of spatial dynamics.
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Herro, Niven. "Arab American Literature and the Ethnic American Landscape: Language, Identity, and Community." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin153563377189775.
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Ryan, Teresa Maria. "This ecstatic nation : the American landscape and the aesthetics of patriotism /." abstract (UNR users only), 2007. http://0-gateway.proquest.com.innopac.library.unr.edu/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3280751.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Nevada, Reno, 2007."August 2007." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 191-221). Library also has microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : ProQuest Information and Learning Company, [2008]. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. Online version available on the World Wide Web.
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Bacon, Jane M. "Unveiling the dance : Arabic dancing in an urban English landscape." Thesis, University of Surrey, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.274189.
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Shields, Ben. "We Brighten the Dull Winter Landscape." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2013. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1668.
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Rey, Lauren N. "The Landscape Parks of Jane Austen: Gender and Voice." FIU Digital Commons, 2015. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/2237.
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This thesis examines the function of specific garden features in Jane Austen’s novels, particularly in the seminal texts Pride and Prejudice and Mansfield Park. Male power, politics and land ownership dominated eighteenth-century society. Despite this, Austen’s woman protagonists utilize the tree avenues feature of landscape parks, voicing a need to redefine moral responsibility associated with land ownership. This thesis draws on the literary theories of gender studies and ecocriticism to examine garden spaces in Austen’s texts, though the primary focus of the investigation relies on exploring the primary texts themselves with a historical approach. In addition to this secondary critical scholarship, this thesis utilizes resources such as eighteenth century garden histories and guides, background information on specific gardeners of the period, and typical landscape garden features as evidence.
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Kintoki, Alain Nzuzi. "The e-agriculture research landscape in South Africa : a systematic literature review." Thesis, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11838/2586.
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Thesis (MTech (Information Technology))--Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2017.The objective of this study was to determine the current status of e-agriculture research in the South African context. A systematic literature review was used to gather and analyse data in alignment with the objective of the study. The researcher used keywords and combined search keywords on web search engines and digital databases to obtain pertinent research papers. The scope of the study was limited to the period 2000-2016. The books, theses, conference papers and journal articles identified as pertinent to conduct the study, amounted to 114 in number. The analysis of the study described the focus of research papers, research methods, research approaches, theoretical lenses, units of analysis and observation, levels of analysis, historical development, and major concepts and disciplines used by authors in their studies. The study also sought to discover the year of publication and assessment of searchability of the papers. The results indicate that 13 papers (11.4%) were published in the first five years (2000- 2004) and 51 papers (44.7%) in the last five years (2012-2016) of the delimited period for the study. The results of the study further indicate that the application of geographic information systems (GISs) towards improving agriculture was the most prominent eagriculture research area in South Africa (27 papers, 23.6%), followed by the use of satellite enhancing agriculture (26 papers, 22.8%). E-government direct services, mobile in agriculture, and agricultural information systems were the least prominent e-agriculture research areas in South Africa with a contribution of two papers (1.8%) each. The results of this study show that information mapping was the most used research method by researchers in their studies (57 papers, 50%), followed by the case study method with 31 papers (27.1%). The results further denote that the least used research method was industry reports with no mention of it in any of the pertinent papers, followed by grounded theory with two papers (1.7%). Interpretivism was the most used research approach by researchers (six papers, 5.2%) during the period 2000-2016. The findings of this study clearly show that researchers still need to address certain issues or problems regarding e-agriculture in South Africa in order to improve the agricultural sector. The contribution of the study is to understand the importance of enhancing research capability and socio-economic transformation of farmworkers and farmers through enhanced communication of agriculture research knowledge in the area of agricultural informatics. A foundation for further studies was created for continuous e-agriculture research in South Africa.
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Hudgins, Caitlin. "Pioneering the Social Imagination: Literary Landscapes of the American West, 1872-1968." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2016. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/411896.
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This dissertation investigates why literary dreams of the West have been categorically dismissed as mythical. Western critics and authors, ranging from Thomas Jefferson to Owen Wister to Patricia Nelson Limerick, have sought to override dreams of the West by representing the western genre as, in Jane Tompkins’ words, a “craving for material reality.” This focus on authenticity betrays an antipathy to the imagination, which is often assumed to be fantastical, escapist, or utopian – groundless, and therefore useless. Such a prejudice, however, has blinded scholars to the value of the dreams of western literary characters. My project argues that the western imagination, far from constituting a withdrawal from reality, is worthy of critical attention because it is grounded in the land itself: the state of the land is directly correlated to a character’s ability to formulate a reliable vision of his setting, and this image can enable or disable agency in that space. By investigating changes in western land practices such as gold-mining, homesteading, and transportation, I show that the ways characters imagine western landscapes not only model historical interpretations of the West but also allow for literary explorations of potential responses to the land’s real social, political, and economic conditions. This act of imagining, premised on Louis Althusser’s explanation of ideology, follows Arjun Appadurai’s conception of the imagination as “social practice.” Ultimately, my dissertation explores geographical visions in western novels across the 20th century in order to demonstrate the imagination’s vital historical function in the creation of the West.
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Magro, Algarotti Jennifer L. "The Austrian Imaginary of Wilderness: Landscape, History, and Identity in Contemporary Austrian Literature." The Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1345547663.
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Harner, Devin Grant. "Landscape and memory in the poetry of Philip Levine and Gary Snyder." Access to citation, abstract and download form provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company; downloadable PDF file, 156 p, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1257806661&sid=6&Fmt=2&clientId=8331&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Ladd, Kristin Yoshiko. "Jack London: Landscape, Love, and Place." DigitalCommons@USU, 2013. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/1747.
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In Jack London: Landscape, Love, and Place, American Studies theories and methods formed the prime basis for analysis of London's biography, historical context, and literary significance. Particularly, the ideas of agrarianism, the Turner Thesis moment, Western literature, American masculinity, Victorian ideals, and sustainable farm practices in America were used to understand London's motivations for writing and creating his farm, his influence on American literature, and his texts' abilities to open avenues between literature and place-based education. Key concepts that influenced how London's works could be incorporated into and applied to didactic theory included David Sobel's seminal works in place-based education. The principle idea behind this thesis was to analyze one author and two of his works in a wider theoretical context, and then, to use that analysis to apply the theories to practical methods of educating future students in sustainable practices, place-based learning, and future work in understanding their impact on the ecosystems of their local communities and landscapes.
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Miner, Joshua David. "Indian agencies: Native poetics of resistance in a bureaucratic landscape." Diss., University of Iowa, 2015. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/6477.
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This dissertation offers a transdisciplinary exploration of the relationship between settler-colonial bureaucracy and Native artistic production. Employing methodologies from literary, media and rhetorical studies, public health and organizational studies, I argue that the settler compulsion to manage Native people, formalized in the bureaucratic model, precipitated the twentieth-century development of a Native poetics of resistance. A managerial presence has always permeated U.S.–Native relations, as bureaucrats regulated Native activity, maintained records, instructed in Anglo-Western values and habits, and reported on Native progress toward assimilation. Bureaucratic parlance contained a crucial contradiction: the “Indian agency” and “Indian agent” originated at the start of—and for the purpose of—the erosion of Indigenous agency. I investigate how authors exploit these as tropes in deconstructing Native administrative subjectivity. Two faces of this presence emerge: the agent, instrument of surveillance and managerial practice; and the agency, management’s projection in space, creating a bureaucratic landscape that impairs Native health. Within all representations of bureaucracy linger traces of the unmanageable, an Indigenous fugitive presence that eludes classification, regulation, and narratives of control. I analyze these tropes in four realms of settler-bureaucratic practice, where a transmedia poetics develops within the field of Native arts that engage with administrative systems and discourses. I begin with expressions of therapeutic insobriety that defy Anglo-Western models of addiction and treatment; in chapter two, I delineate a wiindigoo poetics that critiques the management of Native foodways. A poetics of truancy surfaces in chapter three to express a dynamic of escape from representational closure by settler education. I argue finally that, in stories of sexual violence against Native women, there arises a poetics that privileges experiences of violence over legalist records that efface those experiences. The enduring U.S. bureaucratic obsession with regulating Native lifeways and modes of expression presupposes Indigenous disappearance, but it also produces a generative breach wherein contemporary Native authors and artists cultivate a poetics of resistance in a new literature and cinema of bureaucracy. Recent works make clear their intention to engage with historical representation, public policy and administration, and a panoply of institutional discourses—including the academic discourse we use to discuss Native knowledges and cultures.
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Brown, David Bruce Windsor. ""Opaque rings of earth": landscape description in Conrad's Africa and Asia." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2012. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B47869744.
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This thesis documents research undertaken regarding the intentions and effects of the landscape description in four of Joseph Conrad’s short stories and novels. The research was concerned with “Heart of Darkness” and “An Outpost of Progress” and how these two texts depicted Africa, and Lord Jim and “Karain: A Memory” for a description of Asia, although Conrad’s wider oeuvre was consulted where it had bearing on the research. The research was concerned with how Conrad used generic elements of the adventure stories of empire, and whether his stories could be said to support or undermine any prevailing notions of race, racial difference and racial and cultural superiority which were prevalent at the time that Conrad was writing.
To this end, key examples of the imperial romance genre were analysed, and their philosophical and cultural framework was analysed. Conrad’s works were then situated against these concepts and texts, starting with Africa, and then moving on to Asia. This thesis argues that in Africa, Conrad uses landscape description and the relationship between his protagonists and the landscapes that they find themselves in to subvert notions of superiority, specifically attacking European technology, the image of the torch of progress, and the religious rationale for empire building.
For Asia, this thesis argues that in the story of Lord Jim Conrad uses Orientalised images of the Asian female as they were situated in and connected to the landscapes and forests of Asia to suggest a threat to the conception of the masculine hero of imperial adventure fiction, and simultaneously show that the modes of engaging with this threat in the traditional adventure romance story were inadequate when faced with the reality of life in these spaces.
Finally, the story of “Karain: A Memory” is examined from the perspectives of history and of the notion of the exotic. It is argued that in this story, Conrad is critiquing the concepts of modernization and of standard European tales of exoticism and adventure.published_or_final_version
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Williams, Owain. "Identity, language and landscape in Early Modern literature from Wales and the Marches." Thesis, Bangor University, 2018. https://research.bangor.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/identity-language-and-landscape-in-early-modern-literature-from-wales-and-the-marches(76168c54-8814-42b8-9f9e-1c644129efdd).html.
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Many studies on Welsh Writing in English dismiss texts from before the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: my thesis adds to the growing field of scholarship on pre-nineteenth century Welsh Writing in English, which primarily focuses on eighteenth century texts, to show the need to also be inclusive of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Sixteenth and seventeenth-century Wales was a very different country from what it would become in later centuries, owing to its relative autonomy under the administrative jurisdiction of the Council of Wales and the Marches and its legendary status resulting from the legacy of Geoffrey of Monmouth. As a result, Welsh Writing in English from this period of time is different than that from later eras; it is about a country finding its place in a still relatively recent political union. The texts discussed include English translations of the Latin texts of Humphrey Llwyd and John Owen, as well as English language writing by David Powel, Henry Vaughan and Morgan Llwyd. While all of these writers were born in Wales, I will also consider the writing of two non-Welsh writers based in or around Wales, Katherine Philips (often described as an ‘English exile’ in Wales) and Thomas Churchyard, from the nebulous borderland region of the Marches who has been likened to a ‘ventriloquist’. The first chapter concerns itself with Humphrey Llwyd’s The Breviary of Britain and the way in which Llwyd uses chorography in order to depict the landscape and language of Wales. Chapter two’s focus will be on David Powel and his Historie of Cambria where I will analyse how Powel depicts the history and culture of Wales, while also circumnavigating the politics surrounding his patron, Lord Sidney, and the Council of Wales and the Marches. In the third chapter, I examine the poetry of Henry Vaughan and Morgan Llwyd, two seventeenth-century poets of opposing religious and political ideologies, from their regional contexts in Brecknockshire and Wrexham respectively. The fourth chapter inspects the way in which Thomas Churchyard’s Worthines of Wales and the poetry of Katherine Philips reflect perceptions of Wales during their particular eras in order to see what impact Wales had on the socio-political fabric of the islands. Finally, in the fifth chapter I explore several different English translations of the epigrams of John Owen, an ex-recusant Welsh poet who had moved to England, to assess to what extent translation affected the meaning of Owen’s repertoire: this chapter focuses on the epigrams that most concern Wales. My aim in this thesis is to investigate the ways in which Welsh identity manifests itself in writing landscape, language, history, religion, myth and politics, as well as through hiraeth – a feeling associated with sadness and nostalgia for what has been lost – in order to establish a body of texts for early modern Welsh Writing in English.
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Bending, Stephen. "Politics, morality and history : the literature of the later eighteenth-century English landscape garden." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.386369.
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Mollema, Anke. "Typisch Frysk? : Stancetaking in the linguistic landscape of Fryslân." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Centrum för tvåspråkighetsforskning, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-157089.
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Szendrey, Stephen P. "Queering the Literary Landscape: Allen Ginsberg and Walt Whitman." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1275685833.
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Imms, Rhiannon. "Landscape as language : a comparative study of selected works by Susan Howe and Daphne Marlatt." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2006. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/13334/.
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This thesis explores the work of two contemporary women poets, one American, the other Canadian, looking particularly at questions of subjectivity and embodiment in relation to place and to history. Their work is considered in the contexts of American modernist poetry, for instance that of Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams and Charles Olson, and in the light of critical theorists such as Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Michel Foucault, Luce Irigaray and Helene Cixous. Modernist concerns with the materiality of the text, both as product of a capitalist economy and as visual object, are considered alongside postmodern aspects of language as processional and reflexive. The early work of each writer is discussed separately in Chapters One and Two, with selected later work in more direct comparison in Chapters Three and Four.
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Speerstra, Jane Ellen. "Landscape and change in three novels by Theodor Fontane." PDXScholar, 1988. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/3841.
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This thesis traces and explicates the changes in Theodor Fontane's landscape depiction in the years 1887- 1892. I examine his novels Cecile (1887), Irrungen, Wirrungen (1888), and unwiederbringlich (1892). I show that Fontane, as though discarding a relic of the Romantic past, used increasingly less landscape in his narratives. He focused on the actions and conversation of his characters, and on their immediate surroundings. When these surroundings were urban, they tended to disappear. The progressive minimalization of landscape, and of cityscape in particular, foreshadowed the appearance in German literature of twentieth-century man: man alienated from nature in cities, and less aware of empirically observable surroundings than of internal forces and realities.
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Thomas, Nicola. "Landscape, space and place in English- and German-language poetry, 1960-1975." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2017. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/41884/.
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This thesis examines representations of space, place and landscape in English and German-language poetry of the period 1960-1975, a key transitional phase between modernity and postmodernity. It proposes that the impact certain transnational spatial revolutions had on contemporary poetry can only be fully grasped with recourse to comparative methodologies which look across national borders. This is demonstrated by a series of paired case studies which examine the work of J. H. Prynne and Paul Celan, Sarah Kirsch and Derek Mahon, and Ernst Jandl and Edwin Morgan. Prynne and Celan’s 'Sprachskepsis' is the starting point for a post-structuralist analysis of meta-textual space in their work, including how poetry’s complex tectonics addresses multifaceted crises of representation. Mahon and Kirsch’s work is read in the context of spatial division, and it is argued that both use representations of landscape, space and place to express political engagement, and to negotiate fraught ideas of home, community and world. Jandl and Morgan’s representations of space and place, which often depend on experimental lyric subjectivity, are examined: it is argued that poetic subject(s) which speak from multiple perspectives (or none) serve as a means of reconfiguring poetry’s relationship to space at a time when social, literary and political boundaries were being redefined. The thesis thus highlights hitherto underexplored connections between a range of poets working across the two language areas, making clear that space and place is a vital critical category for understanding poetry of this period, including both experimental and non-experimental work. It reveals weaknesses in existing critical taxonomies, arguing for the use of ‘late modernist’ as category with cross-cultural relevance, and promotes methodological exchange between the Anglophone and German traditions of landscape, space and place-oriented poetry scholarship, to the benefit of both.
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Russell, Carole. "Into Faulkner through a concept of landscape." Thesis, University of Stirling, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/11844.
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This thesis examines eight novels by William Faulkner by means of a critical method based on a concept of landscape. The thesis developed out of a curiosity regarding the vivid pictures that Faulkner's novels evoked in the mind of this reader. These reminded the reader of pictures similar in their vividness to those evoked in childhood by fairy tales and children's literature. In the main, here, ` the vivid Faulknemian pictures are examined from a moral point of view. The critical method follows from the idea of the literary landscape as a holistic entity, 'a prospect such as may be taken in at a glance from one point of view'. The method operates in three stages, and the vivid pictures found in the landscapes of the novels are deemed to function as centres of particular interest. In the first stage of the method, an impressionistic landscape, so called, is established, based on the facts of place, time, society, events and values given in or deducible from the novel. The vivid pictures are noted. The second stage calls for the quantification of the author's technical strategies, and in the third stage the vivid pictures are adopted as the starting points for detailed analyses of one or more aspects of the novel. The method seems to bring into focus a mature, detailed and satisfying reader's landscape which, it is hoped, functions as an R accurate reflection of the author's literary creation.
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Peckham, Robert Shannan. "The geography of haunted places : landscape and imagined communities in the fiction of Papadiamantis." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 1994. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-geography-of-haunted-places--landscape-and-imagined-communities-in-the-fiction-of-papadiamantis(12e8a9a3-1ec6-4dce-8586-2f910700d57f).html.
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Bocchetti, Carla. "Cultural geography in Homer : studies on nature and landscape in the 'Iliad' and 'Odyssey'." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.269540.
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Finnegan, Jordana T. "Rewriting colonial histories race, gender, and landscape in new Western narrative /." view abstract or download file of text, 2005. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3190516.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2005.Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 303-333). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
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Paull, James School of English UNSW. "An ambivalent ground: re-placing Australian literature." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. School of English, 2007. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/28330.
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Narratives of place have always been crucial to the construction of Australian identity. The obsession with identity in Australia betrays longstanding uncertainty. It is not difficult to interpret in this uncertainty a replaying of the deeper insecurities surrounding the settler community's legal and more broadly cultural claims to the land. Such insecurities are typically understood negatively. In contrast, this thesis accepts the uncertainty of identity as an activating principle, appropriate to any interpretation of the narratives and themes that inform what it means to be Australian. Fundamental to this uncertainty is a provisionality in the post-colonial experience of place that is papered over by misleadingly coherent spatial narratives that stem from the imperial inheritance of Australian mythology. Place is a model for the tension between the coherence of mythic narratives and the actual rhizomic formlessness of daily life. Place is the ???ground??? of that life, but an ambivalent ground. An Ambivalent Ground approaches postcolonial Australia as a densely woven text. In this text, stories that describe the founding of a nation are enveloped by other stories, not so well known, that work to transform those more familiar narratives. ???Re-placing Australian literature??? describes the process of this transformation. It signifies an interpretative practice which seeks to recuperate the open-ended experience of place that remains disguised by the coherent narratives of nationhood. The process of ???re-placing??? Australian literature shifts the understanding of nation towards a landscape that speaks not so much about identity as about the constitutive performances of everyday life. It also converges with the unhomely dimension that is the colonist's ambiguous sense of belonging. We can understand this process with an analogy used in this thesis, that of music ??? the colonising language, and noise ??? the ostensibly inchoate, unformed background disruptive to cultural order yet revealing the spatial realities of place. Traditionally, cultural narratives in Australia have disguised the much more complex way in which place noisily disrupts and diffracts those narratives, and in the process generates the ambivalence of Australian identity. Rather than a text or a narrative, place is a plenitude, a densely intertwined performance space, a performance that constantly renders experience ??? and its cultural function ??? transgressive. The purpose of this thesis is not to displace stereotypical narratives of nationhood with yet another narrative. Rather, it offers the more risky proposition that provisionality and uncertainty are constitutive features of Australian social being. The narrative in the thesis represents an aggregation of such an ambivalent ground, addressing the persistent tension between place and the larger drama of colonialist history and discourse.
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Ward, Mary Elizabeth. "Forests of thought and fields of perception : landscape and community in Old English poetry." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2018. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/8674/.
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Old English poetry is centred on the concept of community and the importance of belonging. Landscape was a component of any community since, during the period when Old English poetry was being composed and written down, the landscape was a far more important constituent of daily life than it is for the majority of people today. Landscape dictated the places that could be settled, as well as the placing of the paths, fords, and bridges that joined them; it controlled boundaries, occupations, and trading routes. In the poetry of the period landscape, as part of the fabric of community, is the arbiter of whether each element of a community is in its proper place and relationship to the others. It is the means of explaining how a community is constructed, policed, and empowered. Erring communities can be corrected or threats averted through the medium of landscape which also positions communities in place and time. Landscape is presented as the cause of dissension in heaven, the consequent creation of hell, and the key to comprehension of the fundamental difference between them. The linguistic landscapes of Old English poetry are a functional component of the meaning inherent in the narratives.
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Xu, Xiaofan. "A poet's country : landscape and nationhood in T.S. Eliot's post-conversion poetry and politics." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2018. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/49120/.
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The thesis contributes to the knowledge on modernist national identity in the transnational context, with a primary focus on the agency of the rural landscape in the identity-making process. It engages with the post-conversion works of T. S. Eliot, investigates his ruralism in relation to the metropolitan and cosmopolitan aspects of modernism, and situates it within the context of late modernism where an idealised representation of rurality is exploited by various ideologies including fascism and imperialism. By drawing upon insights from transnational modernism and latest theoretical advances on cosmopolitanism, the thesis reveals through the case of Eliot that representations of rurality, local allegiances and rootedness can be emancipatory and coextensive with cosmopolitan projects. My investigation begins by examining the ruralist elements in Eliot’s poetry, pageant and translations during the decade of his conversion to the Anglican Church in 1927, and demonstrates how an emphasis on roots, inheritance and rural living is at once occasioned by and constitutes part of the cosmopolitan condition. The discussion of rootedness is then carried forward to its moral implications, namely its accused complicity with the fascist discourse of the 1930s. A reading of Eliot’s interwar play alongside texts from British surrealism reveals that the vocabulary of ‘Blood and Soil’ used as a fascist slogan can also feed into an alternative literary imagination, one that is devolutionary and anti-nationalist. The argument proceeds to Eliot’s wartime works and reveals how a transnational identity—again channelled through representations of rurality—intervenes into and resists the imperialist spatial ordering of the centre and the periphery. All these discussions of the transnational facets of Eliot’s modernist ruralism prompt a reconsideration of the widely-made association between land-writing and reactionary politics, which the thesis challenges by showing that seeds of modernity and resistance are nonetheless meted out by representations of rurality and local roots.
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Sun, Shao-yi. "Urban landscape and cultural imagination literature, film, and visuality in semi-colonial Shanghai, 1927-1937 /." access full-text online access from Digital Dissertation Consortium, 1999. http://libweb.cityu.edu.hk/cgi-bin/er/db/ddcdiss.pl?9933686.
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Cooledge, Dean R. "Beneath the urban landscape: Some versions of American pastoralism in urban literature, art, and film." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/280163.
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In this dissertation I explore the relationship between the city and the pastoral ideal in America. While not meant to be a comprehensive discussion of Urban Pastoralism, I want to focus my attention on the pastoral impulse one experiences within the city. Some versions of American Pastoralism emphasize the city as a complex wilderness, which creates within its inhabitants a pastoral impulse for a simpler mode (Golden Age) outside the boundaries of the city. However, the inability of the subject in art, literature, and film, to escape from the city forces the subject to seek a symbolic pastoral moment within the city. I will discuss three "texts" to demonstrate how this pastoral desire is manifested in the city. First I will discuss a selection of paintings by Edward Hopper. Hopper paints an ironic form of hortus conclusus in his paintings of this city, for his inhabitants appear trapped within the frame of the painting and longing for "something beyond the frame." I will demonstrate how Hopper's paintings present the possibility of a narrative through this irony. As viewers, our desire to impose order upon this chaos compels us to construct narratives for his paintings. This narrative desire is tied to the pastoral impulse which satisfies our need for order. Second, I will discuss John Updike's Rabbit, Run in which Harry pursues a point suspended in time. His pursuit of the Golden Age of his youth is compromised by the physical and geographical surroundings. Finally, Woody Allen's Manhattan shows a man in pursuit of the pastoral in terms of the meaning and purpose of art. Through his search for artistic integrity, Allen discovers the value of beauty as a symbol of the pastoral ideal.
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Cunningham, David Gordon McAlpine. "Scott-land : the role of his native landscape in the historical novels of Sir Walter Scott." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.320297.
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Wittenberg, Hermann. "The sublime, imperialism and the African landscape." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2004. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&.
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In this dissertation the author argued for a postcolonial reading of the sublime that takes into account the racial and gendered underpinnings of Immanuel Kant's and Edmund Burke's classic theories. The thesis used the understanding of the sublime as a lens for an analysis of the cultural politics of landscape in a range of late imperial and early modern texts about Africa. A re-reading of Henry Morton Stanley's central African exploration narratives, John Buchan's African fiction and political writing, and later texts such as Alan Paton's fiction, autobiographies and travel writing, together with an analysis of colonial mountaineering discourse, suggest that non-metropolitan discourses of the sublime, far from being an outmoded rhetoric, could manage and contain the contradictions inherent in the aesthetic appreciation and appropriation of contested colonial landscapes.
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McWilliams, Amber. "Our lands, our selves : the postcolonial literary landscape of Maurice Gee and David Malouf /." e-Thesis University of Auckland, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2292/5617.
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Thesis (PhD--English)--University of Auckland, 2009."Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements of the Doctor of Philosophy in English, the University of Auckland, 2009." Includes bibliographical references.
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Ellis, Reuben Joseph. "A geography of vertical margins twentieth-century mountaineering narratives and the landscape of neo-imperialism /." Boulder : University of Colorado, 1991. http://books.google.com/books?id=RTFaAAAAMAAJ.
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Kinsella, John. "Spatial relations of landscape: A poetics. Part 1." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2005. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/671.
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This thesis is composed of two parts. Part one is a volume of essays, commentaries, and manifesto pieces that investigate the relationship between literary tropes of landscape, such as pastoral and “nature writing”, and the development of a poetics of landscape writing. The issue of "self" and the relationship the individual might have with specific place, is examined from angles as seemingly disparate as using; a manual Olivetti Letter 32 typewriter for drafting, the ethics of anthologizing place as nation, text on the world wide web, the process of writing and ageing, being struck by lightening as a child, and the effects of herbicide and pesticide usage.
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Wagner, Alexandra Rose. "Landscapes of the soul essays of place and Chinese literary modernity, 1920-1945 /." online access from Digital Dissertation Consortium access full-text, 2002. http://libweb.cityu.edu.hk/cgi-bin/er/db/ddcdiss.pl?3046243.
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Thomas, Daniel. "Spatial dialectics : poetic technique and the landscape of Old English verse." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:b5a24b89-9912-40fa-a5f1-9ef55e5433d4.
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This thesis examines the role of spatial representation in Old English poetry. Focusing on the presentation of setting and spatial relationships in narrative poetry, it argues that sensibility towards the creative potential of spatial representation within a conventional tradition constitutes a significant element of Old English poetic technique. It emphasizes the importance of intertextual reading practices which recognize the dialectics of text and tradition underlying spatial representation in individual examples. Chapter one introduces the subject, outlining the relevant critical contexts in which the thesis stands and describing the methodology that is followed in the subsequent chapters. It also describes the connection between the representation of space and critical assumptions regarding vernacular poetic composition. Chapter two focuses on poetic accounts of the angelic rebellion. The presentation of this event as a territorial and spatial conflict establishes a contrast between vertical and horizontal spatial relationships which relates to concerns prevalent throughout the Anglo-Saxon period over conflicting models for power relationships. The prominence of vertical spatial relationships in these accounts serves to legitimize hierarchical power structures. Chapter three considers territorial conflict in Old English battle poetry. Similarities in the use of setting and the construction of a sense of place in these texts suggest the influence of established poetic conventions. However, poetic artistry is evident in the ways in which spatial representation contributes to the wider thematic and artistic concerns of these texts. Chapter four examines poetic representations of the prison. Whilst such representations do partially reflect conceptualizations of the prison current in Anglo-Saxon England, they also demonstrate a deeper interest in the valence of enclosed space. The chapter extends the intertextual approach of the thesis to consider the possibility of direct borrowing between poems. Chapter five clarifies the argument of the thesis regarding the relationship between spatial representation and poetic technique and identifies some directions for further work.