What is landscape ?
Landscape, John Stilgoe tells us, is a noun. From the old Frisian language, it meant shoveled land: landschop. Sixteenth-century Englishmen misheard or mispronounced this as landskep, which became landskip, then landscape, designating the surface of the earth shaped for human habitation. In this boo...
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| Format: | Livre papier |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Cambridge (Mass.) [etc.] :
The MIT Press
cop. 2015.
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| Autres localisations: | Voir dans le Sudoc |
| Résumé: | Landscape, John Stilgoe tells us, is a noun. From the old Frisian language, it meant shoveled land: landschop. Sixteenth-century Englishmen misheard or mispronounced this as landskep, which became landskip, then landscape, designating the surface of the earth shaped for human habitation. In this book, Stilgoe maps the discovery of landscape by putting words to things, zeroing in on landscape's essence but also leading sideways expeditions through such sources as children's picture books, folklore, deeds, antique terminology, out-of-print dictionaries, and conversations with locals. He offers a companion to understanding, literally and figuratively, what landscape is and a highly original, cogent, compact, gracefully written narrative lexicon of landscape as word, concept, and path to discoveries |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 vol. (XIV-264 p.) : ill., jaquette ill. en coul. ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliographie: | Bibliogr. p. [241]-264. Notes bibliogr. |
| ISBN: | 9780262535281 |