Mapping the Invisible Landscape: Folklore, Writing, and the Sense of PlaceUniversity of Iowa Press, 1993 - 326 Seiten Any landscape has an unseen component: a subjective component of experience, memory, and narrative which people familiar with the place understand to be an integral part of its geography but which outsiders may not suspect the existence ofOCounless they listen and read carefully. This invisible landscape is make visible though stories, and these stories are the focus of this engrossing book. Traveling across the invisible landscape in which we imaginatively dwell, Kent RydenOCohimself a most careful listener and readerOCoasks the following questions. What categories of meaning do we read into our surroundings? What forms of expression serve as the most reliable maps to understanding those meanings? Our sense of any place, he argues, consists of a deeply ingrained experiential knowledge of its physical makeup; an awareness of its communal and personal history; a sense of our identity as being inextricably bound up with its events and ways of life; and an emotional reaction, positive or negative, to its meanings and memories. Ryden demonstrates that both folk and literary narratives about place bear a striking thematic and stylistic resemblance. Accordingly, "Mapping the Invisible Landscape" examines both kinds of narratives. For his oral materials, Ryden provides an in-depth analysis of narratives collected in the Coeur d'Alene mining district in the Idaho panhandle; for his consideration of written works, he explores the OC essay of place, OCO the personal essay which takes as its subject a particular place and a writer's relationship to that place. Drawing on methods and materials from geography, folklore, and literature, "Mapping the Invisible Landscape" offers a broadly interdisciplinary analysis of the way we situate ourselves imaginatively in the landscape, the way we inscribe its surface with stories. Written in an extremely engaging style, this book will lead its readers to an awareness of the vital role that a sense of place plays in the formation of local cultures, to an understanding of the many-layered ways in which place interacts with individual lives, and to renewed appreciation of the places in their own lives and landscapes." |
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... story , told through the words of the residents of a northern Idaho mining district , the feet we trace through the ... stories that we locate places most powerfully , and in so locating them gauge and assess their meaning . It is our ...
... stories that people tell about the places in their lives . These stories need not be limited to any one medium , for both folk and literary narratives about place bear a striking thematic and stylistic family resemblance ; they are ...
... stories and comments I share and write about in my third chapter and whose kindness and hospitality made gathering those stories and com- ments the most enjoyable academic work I've ever done . ( Two of my informants , Maidell Clemets ...
... stories be woven around it , that questions be answered , that imagination be loosed in speculation , that research be done in the field and the library and written into history . Now the questions that it elicits become more mysterious ...
... stories and , conversely , stories can serve to cre- ate places . " 36 Art and photography may reveal the physical appearance of a place in a way that maps cannot and may capture something of the mood and meaning of that place , but ...
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Folklore and the Sense of Place | 53 |
The Folklore of Place The Coeur dAlene Mining District North Idaho | 97 |
A Walk in the Invisible Landscape The Essay of Place | 208 |
The Essay of Place Themes in the Cartography of the Invisible Landscape | 242 |
Feeling Every Bump in the Ground | 289 |
Notes | 297 |
Bibliography | 311 |
Index | 319 |
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Mapping the Invisible Landscape: Folklore, Writing, and the Sense of Place Kent C. Ryden Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 1993 |