Symbolic Landscapes presents a definitive collection of landscape/place studies that explores symbolic, cultural levels of geographical meanings. Essays written by philosophers, geographers, architects, social scientists, art historians, and literati, bring specific modes of expertise and perspectives to this transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary study of the symbolic level human existential spatiality. Placing emphasis on the pre-cognitive genesis of symbolic meaning, as well as embodied, experiential (lived) geography, the volume offers a fresh, quasi-phenomenological approach. The editors articulate the epistemological doctrine that perception and imagination form a continuum in which both are always implicated as complements. This approach makes a case for the interrelation of the geography of perception and the geography of imagination, which means that human/cultural geography offers only an abstraction if indeed an aesthetic geography is constituted merely as a sub-field. Covers a wide-range of examples or cases Contributes to a widely-respected, but under-publishedarea of human/cultural geography as well as the growing interest in place across the disciplines Makes a case for the study of symbolism as essential to landscape/place studies Offers a lived-geography (experiential) component that heightens interest INDICE: From the contents Part 1: Place-Worlds. Introduction 1: The Problematic of Grounding the Significance of Symbolic Landscapes. 1.1 The Road to Indian Wells: Symbolic Landscapes in the California Desert. 1.2 Wilderness as Axis Mundi: Spiritual Journey on the Appalachian Trail. 1.3 Pu‘u Kohola: SpatialGenealogy of a Hawaiian Symbolic Landscape. 1.4 Mythological Landscape and Landscape of Myth: Circulating Visions of Pre-Christian Athos. 1.5 At Home on the Midway: Carnival Conventions and Yard Space in Gibsonton, Florida. 1.6 Crossing the Verge: Roadside Memorials—Perth Western Australia. 1.7 Life on The Avenue: An Allegory of the Street in Early Twenty-First-Century Suburban America.1.8 Metaphor, Environmental Receptivity, and Architectural Design.- Part 2: Geographical Sensibilities in the Arts. Introduction 2: An Apology Concerning the Importance of the Geography of Imagination. 2.1 Severence of Sovereignty: Cartographic Possession in Map Cartouches and Atlas Frontispieces of Early Modern Europe.
- ISBN: 978-1-4020-8702-8
- Editorial: Springer
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 420
- Fecha Publicación: 01/12/2008
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés