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Surveying the Interior: Literary Cartographers and the Sense of Place
Rick Van Noy
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Paperback. In this work, Rick Van Noy explores the ways that four American literary cartographers - Henry David Thoreau, Clarence King, John Wesley Powell and Wallace Stegner - concerned themselves with what it means to map or survey a place and what it means to write about it. Series: Environmental Arts & Humanities S. Num Pages: 224 pages, 11 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSB; RGV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 155 x 216 x 24. Weight in Grams: 344.
From a cartographer who wrote to a writer who mapped, the literary significance of surveying is revealed in this study of human relationships to the landscape. From the very beginning, American literature was closely intertwined with surveying. In Surveying the Interior, Rick Van Noy explores the ways that four American literary cartographers—Henry David Thoreau, Clarence King, John Wesley Powell, and Wallace Stegner—concerned themselves with what it means to map or survey a place and what it means to write about it. In the process, he helps define the ways by which space enters the human psyche as definable place, as ... Read more
From a cartographer who wrote to a writer who mapped, the literary significance of surveying is revealed in this study of human relationships to the landscape. From the very beginning, American literature was closely intertwined with surveying. In Surveying the Interior, Rick Van Noy explores the ways that four American literary cartographers—Henry David Thoreau, Clarence King, John Wesley Powell, and Wallace Stegner—concerned themselves with what it means to map or survey a place and what it means to write about it. In the process, he helps define the ways by which space enters the human psyche as definable place, as ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Nevada Press
Condition
New
Place of Publication
Reno, United States
ISBN
9780874175738
SKU
V9780874175738
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About Rick Van Noy
Rick Van Noy is assistant professor of English at Radford University, where he teaches technical writing, composition, environmental literature, and American literature.
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