Humanistic Geography and Literature (RLE Social & Cultural Geography)

Humanistic Geography and Literature (RLE Social & Cultural Geography)

Author: Douglas C. D. Pocock

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-01-23

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13: 1317906322

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This book introduces the beginning student to the major concepts, materials and tools of the discipline of geography. While it presents geographic theory, as whole and for each of its parts, the chief emphasis is on concrete analysis and example rather than on abstraction, an approach which has proven more successful for undergraduate courses than those with a more heavily theoretical bias. The text was extensively re-written for the third edition, which enhanced its clarity and effectiveness, with expanded cartographic coverage.


Humanistic Geography and Literature

Humanistic Geography and Literature

Author: Douglas C. D. Pocock

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-12-09

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 9781138972148

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This book introduces the beginning student to the major concepts, materials and tools of the discipline of geography. While it presents geographic theory, as whole and for each of its parts, the chief emphasis is on concrete analysis and example rather than on abstraction, an approach which has proven more successful for undergraduate courses than those with a more heavily theoretical bias. The text was extensively re-written for the third edition, which enhanced its clarity and effectiveness, with expanded cartographic coverage.


Humanistic Geography (RLE Social & Cultural Geography)

Humanistic Geography (RLE Social & Cultural Geography)

Author: David Ley

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-01-23

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 1317820525

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Humanistic geography now has an established position in the intellectual development of contemporary geography. However there has so far been little attempt to draw together the humanistic approach in one broad statement. This book by the leading figures in the field provides a platform for the exposition of humanistic geography in all its aspects.


Humanist Geography

Humanist Geography

Author: Yi-fu Tuan

Publisher: George F Thompson

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 181

ISBN-13: 9780983497813

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For more than fifty years, Yi-Fu Tuan has carried the study of humanistic geography—what John K. Wright early in the twentieth century called geosophy, a blending of geography and philosophy—to new heights, offering with each new book a fresh and often unique intellectual introspection into the human condition. His latest book, Humanist Geography, is a testament of all that he has learned and encountered as a geographer. In returning to and reappraising his previous books, Tuan emphasizes how the study of humanist geography can offer a younger generation of students, scholars, and teachers a path toward self-discovery, personal fulfillment, and even enlightenment. He argues that in the study of place can be found the wonders of the human mind and imagination, especially as understood by the senses, even as we human beings deal with nature's stringencies and our own deep flaws.


Literary Geography

Literary Geography

Author: Sheila Hones

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2022-05-10

Total Pages: 129

ISBN-13: 1317695976

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Literary Geography provides an introduction to work in the field, making the interdiscipline accessible and visible to students and academics working in literary studies and human geography, as well as related fields such as the geohumanities, place writing and geopoetics. Emphasising the long tradition of work with literary texts in human geography, this volume: provides an overview of literary geography as an interdiscipline, which combines aims and methods from human geography and literary studies explains how and why literary geography differs from spatially-oriented critical approaches in literary studies reviews geographical work with literary texts from the late 19th century to the present day includes a glossary of key terms and concepts employed in contemporary literary geography. Accessible and clear, this comprehensive overview is an essential guide for anyone interested in learning more about the history, current activity and future of work in the interdiscipline of literary geography.


Textures of Place

Textures of Place

Author: Paul C. Adams

Publisher: U of Minnesota Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 504

ISBN-13: 9780816637560

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Annotation A fresh and far-ranging interpretation of the concept of place, this volume begins with a fundamental tension of our day: as communications technologies help create a truly global economy, the very political-economic processes that would seem to homogenize place actually increase the importance of individual localities, which are exposed to global flows of investment, population, goods, and pollution. Place, no less today than in the past, is fundamental to how the world works. The contributors to this volume -- distinguished scholars from geography, art history, philosophy, anthropology, and American and English literature -- investigate the ways in which place is embedded in everyday experience, its crucial role in the formation of group and individual identity, and its ability to reflect and reinforce power relations. Their essays draw from a wide array of methodologies and perspectives -- including feminism, ethnography, poststructuralism, ecocriticism, and landscape ichnography -- to examine themes as diverse as morality and imagination, attention and absence, personal and group identity, social structure, home, nature, and cosmos.


The Human Experience of Space and Place

The Human Experience of Space and Place

Author: Anne Buttimer

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-06-03

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 1317408446

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Humanistic geography is one of the major emerging themes which has recently dominated geographic writing. Anne Buttimer has been one of the leading figures in the rise of humanistic geography, and the research students she collected round her at Clark University in the 1970s constituted something of a ‘school’ of humanistic geographers. This school developed a significantly new style of geographical inquiry, giving special emphasis to people’s experience of place, space and environment and often using philosophical and subjective methodology. This collection of essays, first published in 1980, brings together this school and offers insight into philosophical and practical issues concerning the human experience of environments. An extensive range of topics are discussed, and the aim throughout is to weave analytical and critical thought into a more comprehensive understanding of lived experience. This book will be of interest to students of human geography.


Geographical Imaginations

Geographical Imaginations

Author: Indranil Acharya

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2022-08-11

Total Pages: 145

ISBN-13: 0192695673

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Matters of space, spatiality, geography, topography and place have mostly remained neglected in modern scholarship and teaching because in most modern and postmodern literary criticism history and temporality have been dominating discourses. But in recent criticism the "when" and "what" of literature yield place to "where" as Michel Foucault declared the present time as "the epoch of space". Literature reflects a spirit of place and a sense of place because place is known and given meaning when it is felt and closely experienced by human beings living in it. This humanistic geographical emphasis on human experience of place opens up the possibility of an interdisciplinary study of literature of geography. Literature creates and recreates geography in its own way and there are many ways of looking at literary representation of space and place. The book is meant to offer a good introduction to those divergent ways in which space, place, topography and geography evince themselves in literature.


Humanistic Geography

Humanistic Geography

Author: Majid Husain

Publisher:

Published: 1994-01-01

Total Pages: 460

ISBN-13: 9788170418689

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Geographic Thought At Any Point Of Time Is A Manifestation Of The Interaction Between The Prevailing Philosophical View Points And The Major Methodological Approaches In Vogue. Because Of The Extreme Diversity Of View Points On Both Philosophy And Methodology, There Has Been A Constant Extension, And Even A Shift, In The Focus Of The Discipline. As A Reaction To The Quantitative Revolution The Philosophical Approach Of Humanistic Geography Emerged In Geography In The Middle Of The 1970S.Humanistic Geography Is An Approach In Human Geography Distinguished By The Central And Active Role It Gives To Human Awareness, Agency And Creativity. It Emerged As A Criticism And Rejection Of The Geometric Determinism . Though Enough Literature Has Been Produced By Applying Humanistic Approach, The Concepts, Principles And Methodology Has Not Been Given In One Book. The Present Volume Fills Up That Deficiency And May Be Said As The First Of Its Type On Humanistic Geography .The Papers Included In This Book Deal With The Scope And Prospects, Philosophy And Methodology, Humanism And Historical Materialism, Spatial Design And Behaviour, From Description To Prescription. These Articles Written By The Eminent Scholars Of The Contemporary Period Provide A Vivid And In-Depth Understanding Of The Humanistic Approach In Geography And Also Give The Limits Of Such A Philosophy And Conceptual Aspect Of The Humanism In Geography But An Appraisal Of The Meaning And Development Of This Humanistic Geography In The Light Of Its Outstanding Leaders.