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Mapping the Invisible Landscape: Folklore, Writing, and the Sense of Place (American Land and Life Series) by Kent C. Ryden is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Mapping the Invisible Landscape: Folklore, Writing, and the Sense of Place (American Land and Life Series) about?

"Any landscape has an unseen component: a subjective component of experience, memory, and narrative which people familiar with the place understand to be an integral part of its geography but which outsiders may not suspect the existence of--unless they listen and read carefully. This invisible landscape is make visible though stories, and these stories are the focus of this engrossing book. Traveling across the invisible landscape in which we imaginatively dwell, Kent Ryden--himself a most careful listener and reader--asks the following questions. What categories of meaning do we read into our surroundings? What forms of expression serve as the most reliable maps to understanding those meanings? Our sense of any place, he argues, consists of a deeply ingrained experiential knowledge of its physical makeup; an awareness of its communal and personal history; a sense of our identity as being inextricably bound up with its events and ways of life; and an emotional reaction, positive or negative, to its meanings and memories. Ryden demonstrates that both folk and literary narratives about place bear a striking thematic and stylistic resemblance. Accordingly, Mapping the Invisible Lands

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Author

Kent C. Ryden

Publisher

University Of Iowa Press

Published

1993

Language

EN

ISBN

9781587292088

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, History, Sociology