Backhaus, Gary
Symbolic Landscapes
1. Places—Worlds
1. Introduction I The Problematic of Grounding the Significance of Symbolic Landscapes
Gary Backhaus
2. The Road to Indian Wells: Symbolic Landscapes in the California Desert
Alex Zukas
3. Wilderness as
Kip Redick
4. Pu’u Kohola: Spatial Genealogy of a Hawaiian Symbolic Landscape
R. D. K. Herman
5. Mythological Landscape and Landscape of Myth: Circulating Visions of Pre-Christian Athos
Veronica Dora
6. At Home on the Midway: Carnival Conventions and Yard Space in Gibsonton, Florida
Charlie Hailey
7. Crossing the Verge: Roadside Memorial—Perth, Western Australia
Dennis Wood
8. Life on “The Avenue”: An Allegory of the Street in Early Twenty-First-Century Suburban America
John Srygley
9. Metaphor, Environmental Receptivity, and Architectural Design
Brook Muller
2. Geographical Sensibilities in the Arts
10. Introduction II An Apology Concerning the Importance of the Geography of Imagination
Gary Backhaus
11. Semblance of Sovereignty: Cartographic Possession in Map Cartouches and Atlas Frontispieces of Early Modern Europe
Christine M. Petto
12. Symbolism and the Interaction of the Real and the Ideal: Scenery in Early-Modern Netherlandish Graphic Art
Anat Gilboa
13. Traversing One’s Space: Photography and the
Panizza Allmark
14. The Philadelphia Flower Show and Its Dangerous Sensibilities
Gary Backhaus
15. Gardening at a Japanese Garden
John Murungi
16. Symbolic Space: Memory, Narrative, Writing
Arndt Niebisch
17. Vienna’s Musical Deathscape
Linda Ardito
18. Crusoe’s Island and the Human Estate: Defoe’s Existential Geography
Dennis E. Skocz
Keywords: PHILOSOPHY / General PHI000000
- Author(s)
- Backhaus, Gary
- Murungi, John
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2009
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Category
- Philosophy
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781402087035