Allergic to the Twentieth Century: Intentional Communities and Therapeutic Landscapes in<i>The Village</i>and<i>Safe</i>

Bell, David

doi:10.1080/20507828.2017.1283123

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“…Most recently, Steffler (2017) described the mirroring of illness of the female body in the natural landscape in Munro's "What Do You Want to Know For?" Bell (2017) then employed the therapeutic landscapes concept and the literary geography tradition to analyze the films The Village (2004) and Safe ( 1995). The analysis of these novels and films speaks to the power of fiction in understanding the complex interactions between people, the environment, and health.…”

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“…The analysis of these novels and films speaks to the power of fiction in understanding the complex interactions between people, the environment, and health. In addition, they demonstrate that fiction, like all mediums, cannot represent a definitive truth given that knowledge is always partial, situated, and constructed through multiple truths, but can reveal the dynamic social and temporal contexts of the author and the world their characters inhabit (Bell 2017;Saunders 2010).…”

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Illness and Sense of Place in Rural Iceland:The Stones Speakby Þórbergur Þórðarson

Brooke

Williams

2020

GeoHumanities

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This paper intersects two areas of human geography research: therapeutic landscapes and literary geography. Using Þórbergur Þórðarson's The Stones Speak (2012) as a case study, the paper explores the mixing of the rural environment and the wilderness in a farming community in Iceland at the turn of the twentieth century, as well as the health-related properties of this space. The built environment can function as a site of physical and social health, while the wilderness provides emotional healing and normalcy for the physically sick. Though elements can be recognized separately, this paper highlights how local people experience both wilderness and rural elements as one landscape, as well as how human activity shapes the landscape and its inhabitants's sense of place. Literary geography limits the study to a single cultural context, thus more study is needed to articulate the intersection of rural and wilderness space.

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confidence: 99%

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%