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Author : Harold S. Van Doren
Release : 2012
Genre : Isle au Haut (Me. : Town)
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Book Rating : 106/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis An Island Sense of Home by : Harold S. Van Doren
Download or read book An Island Sense of Home written by Harold S. Van Doren. This book was released on 2012. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories, history, character sketches of people and events on Isle au Haut, an island off the coast of Maine
Author : Christian Riegel
Release : 1998-03
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Rating : 100/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A Sense of Place by : Christian Riegel
Download or read book A Sense of Place written by Christian Riegel. This book was released on 1998-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A re-evaluation of regionalism in Canadian and American writing, A Sense of Place provides a comparative approach to the issue within a continental framework. The contributors to this collection-including Frank Davey, Marjorie Pryse, and Jonathan Hart-look at a broad range of writers. They explore regionalism on both sides of the border in light of the central political, cultural, literary, and theoretical debates of our times.
Author : Kurt Hoelting
Release : 2010-04-13
Genre : Travel
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Book Rating : 916/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Circumference of Home by : Kurt Hoelting
Download or read book The Circumference of Home written by Kurt Hoelting. This book was released on 2010-04-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This much is clear to me. If I can't change my own life in response to the greatest challenge now facing our human family, who can? And if I won't make the effort to try, why should anyone else? So I've decided to start at home, and begin with myself. The question is no longer whether I must respond. The question is whether I can turn my response into an adventure. After realizing the gaping hole between his convictions about climate change and his own carbon footprint, Kurt Hoelting embarked on a yearlong experiment to rediscover the heart of his own home: He traded his car and jet travel for a kayak, a bicycle, and his own two feet, traveling a radius of 100 kilometers from his home in Puget Sound. This "circumference of home" proved more than enough. Part quest and part guidebook for change, Hoelting's journey is an inspiring reminder that what we need really is close at hand, and that the possibility for adventure lies around every bend.
Author : Richard J. Schneider
Release : 2000-05
Genre : Literary Collections
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 110/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Thoreaus Sense of Place by : Richard J. Schneider
Download or read book Thoreaus Sense of Place written by Richard J. Schneider. This book was released on 2000-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent Thoreau studies have shifted to an emphasis on the green" Thoreau, on Thoreau the environmentalist, rooted firmly in particular places and interacting with particular objects. In the wake of Buell's Environmental Imagination, the nineteen essayists in this challenging volume address the central questions in Thoreau studies today: how “green,” how immersed in a sense of place, was Thoreau really, and how has this sense of place affected the tradition of nature writing in America? The contributors to this stimulating collection address the ways in which Thoreau and his successors attempt to cope with the basic epistemological split between perceiver and place inherent in writing about nature; related discussions involve the kinds of discourse most effective for writing about place. They focus on the impact on Thoreau and his successors of culturally constructed assumptions deriving from science, politics, race, gender, history, and literary conventions. Finally, they explore the implications surrounding a writer's appropriation or even exploitation of places and objects.
Author : Youngjoo Son
Release : 2013-10-15
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 879/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Here and Now by : Youngjoo Son
Download or read book Here and Now written by Youngjoo Son. This book was released on 2013-10-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Working at the crossroads of contemporary geographical and cultural theory, the book explores how social spaces function as sites which foreground D. H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf's critiques of the social order and longings for change. Looking at various social spaces from homes to nations to utopian space brought into the here and now the book shows the ways in which these writers criticize and deconstruct the contemporary symbolic, physical, and discursive spatial topoi of the dominant socio-spatial order and envision a more liberating and inclusive human geography. In addition, the book calls for the need to redress the tendency of some spatial theories to underestimate the political potential of literary discourse about space, instead of simply and mechanically appropriating some theoretical concepts to literary criticism. One of the central findings in the book, therefore, is that literary texts can perform subversive interventions in the production of social space through their critical interaction with dominant spatial codes.
