| Description |
1 online resource (355 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Spatial practices, an interdisciplinary series in cultural history, geography, literature,
1871-689X ;
6
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Spatial practices ; 6.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-350) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : Mapping the (critical) territory -- Garden -- Orient -- Wilderness -- Heterotopia. |
| Summary |
This study explores the ways in which the desert, as topographical space and cultural presence, shaped and reshaped concepts and images of America. Once a territory outside the geopolitical and cultural borders of the United States, the deserts of the West and Southwest have since emerged as canonical American landscapes. Drawing on the critical concepts of American studies and on questions and problems raised in recent debates on ecocriticism, The Poetics and Politics of the Desert investigates the spatial rhetoric of America as it developed in view of arid landscapes since the mid-nineteenth. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Cultural landscapes -- United States.
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Cultural landscapes. |
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United States. |
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Landscapes -- Symbolic aspects -- United States.
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Landscapes -- Symbolic aspects. |
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National characteristics, American.
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National characteristics, American. |
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United States -- Historical geography.
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Historical geography. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Title |
Landscape and the construction of America |
| ISBN |
9781435695139 (electronic book) |
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1435695135 (electronic book) |
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9042024968 |
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9789042024960 |
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9789401206570 |
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9401206570 |
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9042024968 |
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9789042024960 |
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