FOCUS: LITERARY LANDSCAPES —GEOGRAPHY and LITERATURE

Sandberg, Linda; Marsh, John S.

doi:10.1111/j.1541-0064.1988.tb00879.x

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“…The idiosyncrasies of novelists and the nature, quality and reliability of their fact, fiction, and symbol need to be considered' (Sandberg and Marsh, 1988: 266-67). It follows from this, almost naturally, that most geographical research on literature deals with examples taken from the nineteenth-century realist novel tradition.…”

Section: A New Object For Geographymentioning

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Geography's literature

Brosseau

1994

Progress in Human Geography

120

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Ontario K1 N 6N5, CanadaAmong the great variety of written documents that geographers use or reflect on, literature has gained considerable attention in the last 20 years. This interest in literature was first promoted in a bid to open geography to new fields and break up the monopoly of traditional sources. The rationale for resorting to literature has varied with time and theoretical frameworks. Geographers have considered the 'documentary' value of literary sources, sought to restore geography within the 'humanities', examined landscape perception or evaluated the didactic possibilities of literature. Various currents of the discipline have turned to literature in order to explore its relevance to different points of view: regionalists in search of more vivid description of place; humanists seeking evocative transcriptions of spatial experience; radicals concerned with social justice; others trying to establish parallels between the history of geographical and literary ideas; or more discursively-oriented researchers addressing the problems of representation. Nevertheless, the origins of the actual emergence of this field in geography reveals its originality within the human and social sciences.Many social and human sciences -certainly in France anyway -started to consider literature with greater scrutiny around the 1950s and 1960s in the wake of what has been referred to as the structural revolution. The emergence of structuralism and the parallel growth of social sciences have contributed to the intensification of the focus on literature. Putting language at the very core of these sciences -with linguistics as the 'guiding light' -structuralism has created an intellectual landscape favouring, as never before, interdisciplinary studies. Linguistics, semiotics, but also anthropology (which initiated the movement), psychoanalysis, philosophy and sociology, and others, followed suit. Within the emergence of this 'new paradigm', considerations on discourse, textuality or other semiotic systems became more frequent, often with a particular focus on literary productions. It is worth noting that within geography -which was rather slow or even reluctant to follow in this continental or French intellectual trend up until the mid-1970s

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Section: A New Object For Geographymentioning

confidence: 99%

Geography's literature

Brosseau

1994

Progress in Human Geography

120

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“…Cosgrove & Daniels, 1988), as symbols of events (e.g. Another topic to be dealt with in the perception of the landscape and its symbolic context is the relationship between landscape as a motif and art as a result (Andrews, 1999;Sandberg & Marsh, 2008). Another topic to be dealt with in the perception of the landscape and its symbolic context is the relationship between landscape as a motif and art as a result (Andrews, 1999;Sandberg & Marsh, 2008).…”

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Landscape Modelling

2010

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Aims and ScopeUrban and Landscape Perspectives is a series which aims at nurturing theoretic reflection on the city and the territory and working out and applying methods and techniques for improving our physical and social landscapes.The main issue in the series is developed around the projectual dimension, with the objective of visualising both the city and the territory from a particular viewpoint, which singles out the territorial dimension as the city's space of communication and negotiation.The series will face emerging problems that characterise the dynamics of city development, like the new, fresh relations between urban societies and physical space, the right to the city, urban equity, the project for the physical city as a means to reveal civitas, signs of new social cohesiveness, the sense of contemporary public space and the sustainability of urban development.Concerned with advancing theories on the city, the series resolves to welcome articles that feature a pluralism of disciplinary contributions studying formal and informal practices on the project for the city and seeking conceptual and operative categories capable of understanding and facing the problems inherent in the profound transformations of contemporary urban landscapes.

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“…Tourists for centuries have flocked to the places described in works of literature-to Dickens's London, Joyce's Dublin, to ''Tara'' or the home of Anne of Green Gables (Pemberton [1876(Pemberton [ ] 1972Mallory and Simpson-Housley 1987;Luftig 1996;Fawcett and Cormack 2001). Works of regional fiction such as Ramona, so often read by tourists preparing to travel, 29 offer powerful interpretations of landscape, character, and memory, in turn influencing the very real places the novels sought to fictionalize (DeLyser forthcoming; on landscape and literature, see also Aiken 1977;Pocock 1987;Osborne 1988;Sandberg and Marsh 1988;Simpson-Housley 1988). More recently, film and television have had similar effects, as tourists seek out the scenes they saw, not just in Ramona, but also in (for example) the movies ''Braveheart,'' ''Close Encounters of the Third Kind,'' and ''Field of Dreams'' or the TV show ''Northern Exposure'' (Hanna 1996;Edensor 1997Edensor , 2002Riley, Baker, and Van Doren 1998;Mandel 2002).…”

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Ramona Memories: Fiction, Tourist Practices, and Placing the Past in Southern California

DeLyser

2003

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

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Though today it is mostly forgotten, scholars have long written of the impact of Helen Hunt Jackson's 1884 novel Ramona, about how it saturated southern California's landscape with new, Ramona-related tourist attractions and ultimately inspired a romanticized false past for the region. In this article, I reevaluate the landscape, the novel, and those scholarly interpretations, discovering what I consider, not simply a false past, but rather a new social memory for the region, one that was felt and practiced by the tourists (and locals) who visited the many Ramonarelated landmarks. In particular, I explore the creation of two Ramona sites, the ''Home of Ramona'' and ''Ramona's Marriage Place,'' and detail how tourism and boosterism here intertwined to create attractions that were both profitable as well as meaningful. Using tiny traces scavenged in archives and private collections-souvenirs, postcards, photographs, and scrapbooks-I demonstrate how fact and fiction blurred to become mutually constitutive as a new, Ramona-inspired social memory became inscribed on the landscape and in tourists' lives.

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FOCUS: LITERARY LANDSCAPES —GEOGRAPHY and LITERATURE

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