Language of Landscape

Name: Language of Landscape
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ISBN: 9780300082944

ISBN-10: 0300082940

ISBN-13: 9780300082944

Edition: 1998

Authors: Anne Whiston Spirn

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This study suggests that the language of landscape exists with its own syntax, grammar, and metaphors, and that we imperil ourselves by failing to learn and speak this language.

Book details

List price: $38.95
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 5/11/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 6.54" wide x 9.17" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.650
Language: English



Introduction


Prologue: The Yellowwood and the Forgotten Creek



"Nature's Infinite Book": The Language of Landscape



Dwelling and Tongue: The Language of Landscape



Survival and Imagination: Reading and Telling the Meanings of Landscape



Artful Telling, Deep Reading: The Literature of Landscape



"Without Form and Void" to "Heaven and Earth": Landscape Composition



Is a Path Like a Noun, Flowing Like a Verb? Elements of Landscape and Language



Dynamic Weaving, Fabric of Stories: Shaping Landscape Context



Rules of Context: Landscape Grammar



Using the Language of Landscape: Pragmatics, Poetics, and Polemics



Shaping: Pragmatics of Landscape Expression



A Rose Is Rarely Just a Rose: Poetics of Landscape



Polemical Landscapes


Epilogue: Reimagining Mill Creek


Notes


Sources


Acknowledgments


Index