Reflective landscapes of the anglophone countries (Rodopi, 2011)
Includes bibliographical references and index
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
Introduction - Pascale Guibert -- - From interiority to landscapes and seascapes - the metaphors of reflection in Locke's Essay concerning human understanding - Matthieu Haumesser -- - "Reflections on reflections" - Wordsworth's narcissistic landscapes - Aurélie Thiria-Meulemans -- - "So the horizon line vanishes" - landscape and abstraction in England from the 1930s to the 1950s - Sophie Aymes -- - Out of the garrison and beyond - the rewriting of the landscape tradition in contemporary Candian fiction - Claire Omhovère -- - One land, three landscapes - Frank Gillen's Alice Springs - Timothy Mason -- - Taking the high road - the form, perception and memory of Loch Lomond - Allan Ingram -- - Digging into the West - Tim Robinson's deep landscapes - Eamonn Wall -- - The wilderness as symbolic form - Thoreau, Grünwald and the Group of Seven - Jonathan Bordo -- - Landscape as reflection in British contemporary art - Marjorie Vanbaelinghem -- - Early Wordsworth - toward the limits of the picturesque - Laurent Folliot -- - Locations of memory - a psycho-spacial reading of traumatic landscape in Owen Sheers' "Mametz Wood" - Robert Burden -- - Negotiating colonial contradiction - E.M. Forster's and V.S. Naipaul's negative landscapes - Catherine Lanone -- - The desert landscape - a sunlit landscape amid the night of nonbeing - David Jasper -- - Page-landscapes in the theater of Gertrude Stein - Isabelle Alfandary -- - Encountering the unmappable - the landscape in Heart of darkness (Joseph Conrad) - Richard Pedot -- - "Entering the Edges" - visual and verbal landscapes in Robert Creeley's Collaborations - Barbara Montefalcone