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Writing Worlds Discourse, text and metaphor in the representation of landscape Edited by Trevor J. Barnes and James S. Duncan WRITING WORLDS The purpose of this book is to explore issues of geographical description from a post-structuralist sensibility. Focusing on landscape representation, the authors organise their discussion around the three themes of discourse, text and meta phor. Each theme is used as a potential entry point into understanding the shape and substance of particular kinds of geographical writings: the discourse of econ omics, geopolitics and urban planning, travellers’ descriptions, propaganda maps, cartography and geometry, poetry and painting. The book argues that representations of landscape - the city, the countryside or wilderness - are not mimetic, but rather a product of the nature of the discourse in which they are written. Though the landscape representations explored by the authors varies considerably - travellers’ accounts of Niagara Falls to Turner’s painting of Leeds - each is a written world within a discrete discourse. These essays all participate in the ongoing project of deconstructing geographical discourse to explore the dynamics of power in the representation of landscape. Trevor J. Barnes is Associate Professor of Geography at the University of British Columbia. His main research interests are in economic geography, and he is the author with Eric Sheppard of The Capitalist Space Economy (Unwin Hyman 1990). James S. Duncan is Professor of Geography at Syracuse University. He is a cultural geographer and is the co-editor with John Agnew of The Power of Place (Unwin Hyman 1989) and author of The City as Text (Cam bridge University Press 1990). This page intentionally left blank WRITING WORLDS Discourse, text and metaphor in the representation of landscape Edited by Trevor J. Barnes and James S. Duncan O Routledge Taylor & Francis Group LONDON AND NEW YORK First published 1992 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, 0X14 4RN Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge a division of Routledge, Taylor & Francis 270 Madison Ave, New York NY 10016 Reprinted 1998, 2001 Transferred to Digital Printing 2006 Rout/edge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group © 1992 T. J. Barnes and J. S. Duncan Typeset in Scantext September by Leaper 8c Gard Ltd, Bristol All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Writing worlds: Discourse, Text and Metaphor in the Representation of Landscape. 1. Geography I. Barnes, Trevor J. U. Duncan, James S. 910 ISBN 0-415-05499-0 ISBN 0-415-06983-1 (pbk) Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Writing Worlds: Discourse, Texts, and Metaphors in the Representation of Landscape/ F.dited by Trevor J. Barnes and James S. Duncan Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN 0-415-05499-0 1. Geography-Methodology 2. Discourse analysis 3. Deconstruction (Literary analysis) I. Barnes, Trevor J. II. Duncan, James S. G70.W75 1992 910'.014-dc20 To Claire and Michael and to Jimmy This page intentionally left blank CONTENTS Illustrations Contributors Preface and acknowledgements INTRODUCTION: WRITING WORLDS Trevor J. Barnes and James S. Duncan IDEOLOGY AND BLISS: ROLAND BARTHES AND THE SECRET HISTORIES OF LANDSCAPE James S. Duncan and Nancy G. Duncan THE IMPLICATIONS OF INDUSTRY: TURNER AND LEEDS Stephen Daniels READING THE TEXTS OF NIAGARA FALLS: THE METAPHOR OF DEATH Patrick McGreeuy THE SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT THING THAT IS SAID: WRITING THE AESTHETIC EXPERIENCE Jonathan Smith LINES OF POWER Gunnar Olsson THE ARCHITECTONIC IMPULSE AND THE RECONCEPTUALIZATION OF THE CONCRETE IN CONTEMPORARY GEOGRAPHY Michael R. Curry READING THE TEXTS OF THEORETICAL ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY: THE ROLE OF PHYSICAL AND BIOLOGICAL METAPHORS Trevor J. Barnes CONTENTS 9 METAPHOR, GEOPOLITICAL DISCOURSE AND THE MILITARY IN SOUTH AMERICA 136 Leslie W. Hepple 10 FOREIGN POLICY AND THE HYPERREAL: THE REAGAN ADMINISTRATION AND THE SCRIPTING OF ‘SOUTH AFRICA’ 155 Geardid 0 Tuatbail 11 PORTLAND’S COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AS TEXT: THE FRED MEYER CASE AND THE POLITICS OF READING 176 Judith Kenny 12 TEXTS, HERMENEUTICS AND PROPAGANDA MAPS 193 John Pickles 13 DECONSTRUCTING THE MAP 231 J. B. Harley 14 AFTERWORD 248 James S. Duncan and Trevor J. Barnes Bibliography 254 Index 274 viii ILLUSTRATIONS Plates 1 Europe as a queen xiv 3.1 J. M. W. Turner, Leeds, 1816 39 3.2 Samuel Buck, The east Prospect of the Town of Leedes, 1720 40 4.1 Suicide prevention measures at Prospect Point, Niagara Falls, New York 54 4.2 A landscape of death 62 4.3 The House of Frankenstein, Niagara Falls, Ontario 62 11.1 The Hyster facility - proposed Fred Meyer site 185 11.2 House in Grant Park neighbourhood with anti-Fred Meyer sign 186 12.1 One situation, two maps 198 12.2 Europe as a queen 202 12.3 Theodore Roosevelt’s face superimposed on a map of the USA 203 12.4 Soviet poster 204 12.5 Cover of Antipode 205 12.6 ‘Polish corridors elsewhere’ 206 12.7 German leaflet dropped on the allies at Dunkirk 207 12.8 The cover of a military code book 209 12.9 Time magazine map of‘Red China’ 210 12.10 Bolshevism poster 212 12.11 ‘His amputations continue systematically’ 212 12.12 ‘Work and fight to free the Indies’ 213 12.13 Uncle Sam gobbling chunks of Central America 213 12.14 Churchill as a greedy octopus 214 12.15 England threatened by a Jewish bolshevik conspiracy 214 12.16 German poster of 1944 215 12.17 US leaflet warning the Japanese 216 12.18 Selected examples of graphical illusions 218 12.19 Francis Picabia, The Dadaist Movement, 1919 220 12.20 ‘Arise!’ 229 ix
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