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1 online resource (217 pages). |
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Studies in Environmental Humanities Ser. ; v. 1
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Studies in Environmental Humanities Ser.
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| Contents |
Intro; The Anti-Landscape; Acknowledgements; Table of Contents; Introduction; 1. The Anti-Landscape; I The Threatened Landscape; 2. Skyscapes and Anti-skyscapes: Making the Invisible Visible; 3. Step after Step the Ladder is Ascended Human agency in Irrigated (anti) Landscapes; 4. Landscape, Anti-landscape and the Western Political Imagination: J.B. Jackson's Challenge to Environmentalism; II Anti-Landscapes; 5. Modernism and the Creation of Anti-Landscapes: The Valley of Ashes in Fitzgerald's The Big Sleep; 6. A Landscape of Fear: Cormac McCarthy's The Road. |
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7. Anesthetic Landscapes: Reflections on the Photography of John Ganis8. Fear and Fascination: Anti-Landscapes between Material Resistance and Material Transcendence; 9. Lost Landscapes: Degraded Landscape as Anti-Landscape; III Recoveries; 10. Landscapes of Waste: Malmberget and Ignalina as Cultural Tools in Heritage Processes; 11. Reinventing New York's High Line; Afterword; 12. View from the Dump: Stige Ø and the Question of Anti-Landscapes; Contributors; Index. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
There have always been some uninhabitable places, but in the last century human beings have produced many more of them. These anti-landscapes have proliferated to include the sandy wastes of what was once the Aral Sea, severely polluted irrigated lands, open pit mines, blighted nuclear zones, coastal areas inundated by rising seas, and many others. The Anti-Landscape examines the emergence of such sites, how they have been understood, and how some of them have been recovered for habitation. The anti-landscape refers both to artistic and literary representations and to specific places that no longer sustain life. This history includes T.S. Eliot's Wasteland and Cormac McCarthy's The Road as well as air pollution, recycled railway lines, photography and landfills. It links theories of aesthetics, politics, tourism, history, geography, and literature into the new synthesis of the environmental humanities. The Anti-Landscape provides an interdisciplinary appraoch that moves beyond the false duality of nature vs. culture, and beyond diagnosis and complaint to the recuparation of damaged sites into our complex heritage. -- cover verso. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Landscapes in literature.
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Landscapes in literature. |
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Landscapes -- Philosophy.
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Landscapes. |
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Philosophy. |
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Mineral industries -- Environmental aspects.
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Mineral industries -- Environmental aspects. |
| Added Author |
Elkind, Sarah.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Nye, David E. Anti-Landscape. Leiden : BRILL, ©2014 9789042038868 |
| ISBN |
9401211698 |
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9789401211697 (electronic book) |
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9789042038868 |
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9042038861 |
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