Surveying the interior
literary cartographers and the sense of place
by Rick Van Noy
"From the very beginning, American literature was closely intertwined with surveying. In Surveying the Interior, Rick Van Noy explores the ways that four American literary cartographers - Henry David Thoreau, Clarence King, John Wesley Powell, and Wallace Stegner - concerned themselves with what it means to map or survey a place and what it means to write about it. In the process, he helps to define the ways by which space enters the human psyche as definable place, as well as the ways by which physical landscape is transmuted - through the vagaries of human perception, representative processes, and emotion - into a sense of place as an intimate, personal manifestation of both physical and existential realities."--Jacket.
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Knowledge, Cartography, American literature, History and criticism, Nature in literature, History, Environmental protection in literature, Surveying, Place (Philosophy) in literature, Wilderness areas in literature, Landscapes in literature, Et la cartographie, Littérature américaine, Histoire et critique, Nature dans la littérature, Cartographie, Histoire, Environnement, Protection, dans la littérature, Arpentage, Lieu (Philosophie) dans la littérature, Réserves de la vie sauvage dans la littérature, Paysage dans la littérature, LITERARY CRITICISM, American, General, Protection, Dans la littérature, Lieu (philosophie), Réserves naturelles, American literature, history and criticism, 19th century, Cartography, history| Edition | Availability |
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Surveying the interior: literary cartographers and the sense of place
2003, University of Nevada Press
in English
0874175739 9780874175738
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