Imagining Spaces and Places

Description

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 their undergraduate and postgraduate students. Table of Contents List of Illustrations Plate Images List of Tables Introduction I Remembered and Sensed Spaces Memory and Place from the Red Centerof Australia to the Periphery of Paris Multisensory Memories and the Spacesof Suburban Childhood in the GreaterHelsinki Region in the 1950s and 1960s II Urban Spaces Urban Imagery between Enchantmentand Disenchantment How Cultural? How Material? Rereadingthe Slums of Early Vict orian London Making and Taming “Messy Space” III National Spaces Cabins and National Identityin Norwegian Literature Construct ions of Space “There In Thousands Of LakesThe Stars Of The Night Glimmer” IV Locations Sites of Slavery The Cranbrook Map Hybrids, Saints and Phallic Displays V Visible and Invisible Spaces “Let Us Possesse One World” The Disapp earance of Gravity Invisible Worlds and Imaginary Spacesof a Renaissance Magus Contributors Index