The language of landscape /

Main Author: Spirn, Anne Whiston, 1947-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, c1998.
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Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: The Yellowwood and the Forgotten Creek
  • 1. "Nature's Infinite Book": The Language of Landscape. 1. Dwelling and Tongue: The Language of Landscape. 2. Survival and Imagination: Reading and Telling the Meanings of Landscape. 3. Artful Telling, Deep Reading: The Literature of Landscape
  • 2. "Without Form and Void" to "Heaven and Earth": Landscape Composition. 4. Is a Path Like a Noun, Flowing Like a Verb? Elements of Landscape and Language. 5. Dynamic Weaving, Fabric of Stories: Shaping Landscape Context. 6. Rules of Context: Landscape Grammar
  • 3. Using the Language of Landscape: Pragmatics, Poetics, and Polemics. 7. Shaping: Pragmatics of Landscape Expression. 8. A Rose Is Rarely Just a Rose: Poetics of Landscape. 9. Polemical Landscapes
  • Epilogue: Reimagining Mill Creek.