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Imagining Spaces and Places by Saija Isomaa, Pirjo Lyytikäinen, Kirsi Saarikangas and Renja Suominen-Kokkonen is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Imagining Spaces and Places seeks to produce an interdisciplinary dialogue between art history and literature studies and other fields of cultural analysis that work with the concepts of space, place and various "scapes", such as cityscapes, bodyscapes, mindscapes and memoryscapes, as well as the more familiar landscapes. The volume was inspired by new lines of study that underline the experiential and multi-dimensional aspects of spaces. We explore how art, literature or urban spaces forge "scapes" by imposing or suggesting aesthetic, evaluative or ideological orderings and perceptual as well as emotive perspectives on the "raw material" or on previous ways of spatial world-making. We look at the role of cultural and artistic renderings of space in relation to everyday experiences of spaces. We examine how the experiences of places are mediated in various art forms and other cultural discourses or practices, and how these discourses contribute to the understanding of particular places, and also to understanding space in more general terms. Imagining Spaces and Places is addressed to scholars and teachers working at the intersection of cultural and spatial analyses, as well as to t

Who reads Imagining Spaces and Places?

Author

Saija Isomaa, Pirjo Lyytikäinen, Kirsi Saarikangas and Renja Suominen-Kokkonen

Publisher

Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781443849562

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Memoir, Literary Fiction, Art