Reflective landscapes of the Anglophone countries / edited by Pascale Guibert.

• Superior document: Spatial practices ; 11
• TeilnehmendeR: Guibert, Pascale.
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Spatial Practices 11.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (294 p.)
• Notes: Articles from an international conference held at the University of Caen Basse-Normandie, France, 14-16 June 2007.
• Other title: Preliminary Material --; Acknowledgements --; Notes on Contributors --; Introduction /; From Interiority to Landscapes and Seascapes: The Metaphors of Reflection in Locke’s: Essay Concerning Human Understanding /; “Reflections on Reflections”: Wordsworth’s Narcissistic Landscapes /; “So the Horizon Line Vanishes”: Landscape and Abstraction in England from the 1930's to the 1950's /; Out of the Garrison and Beyond: The Rewriting of the Landscape Tradition in Contemporary Canadian Fiction /; One Land, Three Landscapes: Frank Gillen’s Alice Springs /; Taking the High Road: The Form, Perception and Memory of Loch Lomond /; Digging into the West: Tim Robinson’s Deep Landscapes /; The Wilderness as Symbolic Form – Thoreau, Grünewald and the Group of Seven /; Landscape as Reflection in British Contemporary Art /; Early Wordsworth: Towards the Limits of the Picturesque /; Locations of Memory: A Psycho-Spatial Reading of Traumatic Landscape in Owen Sheers’ “Mametz Wood” /; Negotiating Colonial Contradiction: E. M. Forster’s and V. S. Naipaul’s Negative Landscapes /; The Desert Landscape: A Sunlit Landscape Amid the Night of Nonbeing /; Page-Landscapes in the Theater of Gertrude Stein /; Encountering the Unmappable: The Landscape in Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad) /; “Entering the Edges”: Visual and Verbal Landscapes in Robert Creeley’s Collaborations /; Index /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 1282991736; 9786612991738; 9042032626
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Pascale Guibert.

Too many landscapes have been reduced to silent commodities by being put into golden frames on top of our fireplaces. Too many landscapes have been reified by being considered as objects holding forth referents to an omnipotent looker-on, with his/her language ever ready to seize and transcribe. The articles gathered here, prolonging an international conference held at the University of Caen Basse-Normandie (France), 14-16 June 2007, set the landscapes loose again by engaging with their essentially relational quality. What makes this volume particularly stimulating and critically innovative is this initial acknowledgement of a landscape’s reflectiveness – that is the fact that it contains unthought thought, and thus presents itself to us both passively and actively. This straightaway appraisal of the lines of flight in the seemingly static, tranquil images facing us, has opened the way to deeply critical readings bent on questioning old tracks, testing new itineraries, denying the closure of the subject. At the same time, and by way of consequence, it leads us to encounter the force in landscape. A force like an energy, an impetus, which makes it possible – if not advisable! – to still compose, read and enjoy landscapes in the XXIst century.