Landscape with Figures: Nature and Culture in New England (American Land & Life Series) - Tapa blanda

Ryden

 
9780877457886: Landscape with Figures: Nature and Culture in New England (American Land & Life Series)
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ISBN 10: 0877457883 ISBN 13: 9780877457886
Editorial: University of Iowa Press, 2001

Sinopsis

Kent Ryden does not deny that the natural landscape of New England is shaped by many centuries of human manipulation, but he also takes the view that nature is everywhere, close to home as well as in more remote wilderness, in the city and in the country- side. In Landscape with Figures he dissolves the border between culture and nature to merge ideas about nature, experiences in nature, and material alterations of nature. Ryden takes his readers from the printed page directly to the field and back again. He often bypasses books and goes to the trees from which they are made and the landscapes they evoke, than returns with a renewed appreciation for just what an interdisciplinary, historically informed approach can bring to our understanding of the natural world. By exploring McPhee's The Pine Barrens and Ehrlich's The Solace of Open Spaces, the coastal fiction of New England, surveying and Thoreau's The Maine Woods, Maine's abandoned Cumberland and Oxford Canal, and the natural bases for New England's historical identity, Ryden demonstrates again and again that nature and history are kaleidoscopically linked.

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Kent Ryden is an associate professor in the American and New England Studies Program at the University of Southern Maine. He is the author of Mapping the Invisible Landscape: Folklore, Writing, and the Sense of Place (Iowa, 1993).

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Editorial
University of Iowa Press
Año de publicación
2001
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0877457883
ISBN 13 
9780877457886
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
332
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9780877457879: Landscape with Figures: Nature and Culture in New England (American Land & Life Series)

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ISBN 10:  0877457875 ISBN 13:  9780877457879
Editorial: University of Iowa Press, 2001
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